While computing power and transmission bandwidth have both been steadily increasing over the last few years, bandwidth rather than processing power remains the primary bottleneck f...
Object-oriented database management systems are often motivated by their support for new emerging application areas such as computer-aided design and analysis systems. The object-o...
The Esprit project PRODNET II1 (Production Planning and Management in an Extended Enterprise) had as its main objective the development of a reference architecture and a support in...
In Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) networks, traffic demands can be routed along tunnels called Label Switched Paths (LSPs). A tunnel is characterized by a path in the netwo...
Power consumption is a critical issue for many applications running on autonomous battery operated devices. In the context of low power communications, the use of Forward Error Cor...