We consider an SLA (Service Level Agreement) committed between two parties to use the guarantee of QoS provided by a QoS Enabled Network (QEN). QEN can provide guarantee of QoS bec...
This paper introduces some preliminary results of the standardization process of ITU-T's H.26L project. This forthcoming video coding standard will not only significantly imp...
Auditability is an important property in nancial systems and architectures. Here we de ne the primitive of blind auditable membership proof" BAMP which combines public auditab...
On-line transducers are an important class of computational agent; we construct and compose together many software systems using them, such as stream processors, layered network p...
The client-server model has been successfully used to support a wide variety of families of services in the context of distributed systems. However, its server-centric nature make...