Recently, the scheme of parallel downloading (PD) has been adopted by a number of Internet file downloading applications. With the wide deployment of content distribution network...
Various schemes have been proposed to achieve strong authenticationof streamed data in a lossy network by means of “light” digital signatures. Such techniques perform a strong...
Mobile clients retrieve and update databases at servers. They use transactions in order to ensure the consistency of shared data in the presence of concurrent accesses. Transactio...
IlYoung Chung, Bharat K. Bhargava, Malika Mahoui, ...
—Current multimedia application deployment tends to rely on composable service systems, where a complex multimedia service can be composed dynamically from multiple simpler ones ...
A situation-aware middleware provides standardized communication protocols to interoperate an application with others under dynamically changing situations. Since the application ...
Hoh Peter In, ChangHwa Kim, Unil Yun, Stephen S. Y...
We propose a new model for on-demand media streaming centered around the peer-to-peer (P2P) paradigm. The proposed P2P model can support a large number of clients with a low overa...
This paper considers central issues of distributed computing in a mobile environment. Its aim is to light on the first brick of a common view for mobile systems. We pool together...