This paper introduces a novel access control architecture for publicly accessible, wireless networks. The architecture was designed to address the requirements obtained from a case...
Stefan Schmid, Joe Finney, Maomao Wu, Adrian Frida...
—We claim that the renting of machine resources on clusters of servers introduces new systems challenges which are different from those hitherto encountered, either in multimedia...
The rise of mobile computing and wireless network technology means that, increasingly, applications must adapt to their environment, in particular network connectivity and resource...
Tom Fitzpatrick, Julian R. Gallop, Gordon S. Blair...
This paper uses analysis and experiments to study the minimal buffering requirements of congestion controlled multimedia applications. Applications in the Internet must use congest...
Kang Li, Charles Krasic, Jonathan Walpole, Molly H...
Applications such as multimedia streaming for mobile users, or video conferencing, require support within the network for transcoding, compression etc. Proxylets running on servers...
In this paper, we revisit and challenge the dogma that TCP is an undesirable choice for streaming multimedia, video in particular. For some time, the common view held that neither ...
A number of research studies show that the operating system has a substantial influence on communication delay in distributed environments. Thus, in order to provide applications w...