Although distributed object systems, for example RMI and CORBA, enable object-oriented programs to be easily distributed across a network, achieving acceptable performance usually...
In this paper we suggest a conceptual architecture for music systems, designed to shift the control over a shared urban space to the users themselves, and also to encourage social...
The proliferation of mobile devices has given rise to novel user-centric applications and services. In current mobile systems, users gain access to remote servers over mobile netwo...
—When the Internet was conceived, its fundamental operation was envisioned to be point-to-point communication allowing anybody to talk directly to anybody. With its increasing su...
—Today most home networks are connected to the Internet via Network Address Translation (NAT) devices. NAT is an obstacle for services that should be accessible from the public I...