— Wireless networks have become a ubiquitous reality and ever more surround our everyday activities. They form and disappear around us spontaneously and have become new means for...
In this paper we present the work undertaken by the Advanced Interfaces Group at the University of Manchester into the design and development of a system to support large numbers ...
Steve Pettifer, Jonathan Cook, James Marsh, Adrian...
This article proposes a new distributed architecture for update message exchange in massively multi-user virtual environments (MMVE). MMVE applications require delivery of updates...
We develop a behavioural theory of distributed programs in the presence of failures such as nodes crashing and links breaking. The framework we use is that of D, a language in whi...
The characterising new requirement for distributed multimedia applications is the coexistence of dynamic real-time and non-real-time applications on hosts and networks. While some...