: This paper compares traditional location management, which focuses on tracking mobile subscribers in the topology of a cellular network, with position management, which we defin...
: In our current work with the Chord protocol [SMK+ 01] we had to decide whether to use iterative or recursive routing. Iterative routing provides the initiating node with a lot of...
Multi-hop ad hoc networks are envisioned to be an integral part of future mobile networks. Today, however, ad hoc networks lack the necessary resilience and reliability. This work ...
Im MPEG-21 Multimedia Framework Standard spielt das Digital Item als fundamentale Transaktions- und Austauscheinheit eine zentrale Rolle. Dieser Artikel beschreibt eine Methodik un...
: The usage of SuperPeers has been proposed to improve the performance of both Structured and Unstructured Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks. In this paper we explore a network-aware cla...
Abstract: The document will give a brief overview of the Presence and Availability -specification in general, protocols used in the IP Multimedia Subsystem - namely SIP and Diamet...
: Evolutionary, a Next Generation Network (NGN) is a significant improvement of a successfully existing network. The third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) aimed to merge two ...
Abstract: Although file and printer sharing services have been deployed almost ubiquitously for a long time as part of Microsoft Windows, only recent peer-to-peer applications pop...