One of the most serious issues holding back the widespread of 3D contents on Internet has been their inaccessibility due to large data volume. Many compression and progressive tra...
Recent advance in scalable video coding (SVC) makes it possible for users to receive the same video with different qualities. To adopt SVC in P2P streaming, two key design questio...
A refinement of Cardelli’s brane calculus [1] is introduced where membrane actions are directed. This modification brings the language closer to biological membranes and also o...
Directed Algebraic Topology is a recent field, deeply linked with Category Theory. A ‘directed space’ has directed homotopies (generally non reversible), directed homology gro...
The dynamics of peer participation, or churn, are an inherent property of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems and critical for design and evaluation. Accurately characterizing churn requir...