—We present a middleware platform for assembling pervasive applications that demand fault-tolerance and adaptivity in distributed, dynamic environments. Unlike typical adaptive m...
Hubert Pham, Justin Mazzola Paluska, Umar Saif, Ch...
Abstract— Despite the emergence of voice over IP and videoconferencing services, recent studies have shown that the Internet still may not provide acceptable quality for interact...
Fernando Silveira Filho, Edson H. Watanabe, Edmund...
Biometric authentication using mobile devices is becoming a convenient and important means to secure access to remote services such as telebanking and electronic transactions. Such...
It is wellknown that http servers can be programmed easier by using multithreading, i.e. each connection is dealt with by a separate thread. It is also known, e.g. from massively ...
Many distributed multimedia applications have the ability to adapt to uctuations in the network conditions. By adjusting temporal and spatial quality to available bandwidth, or man...