Growing levels of digitalization and broadband access drives extremely fast progress in multimedia and networking technologies and allows consumers to create requirements at an ac...
Abstract. Access control is a system-wide concern that has both a generic nature and an application dependent characteristic. It is generic as many functions must be protected with...
New applications and standards are first conceived only for functional correctness and without concerns for the target architecture. The next challenge is to map them onto an arch...
Mobile applications such as mobile tourist guides that provide tourists with location-based information today mostly aim to adapt the multimedia content to the different end user...
Due to the lack of QoS support, ensuring an acceptable application level QoS for the real-time delivery of multiobject multimedia presentations on the current Internet is very cha...