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Dealing with a high churn rate is very challenging in live peer-to-peer streaming. State-of-the-art studies try to mitigate the problem by exploiting peer dynamic models, analyzing traces from real world systems, or using enhanced coding techniques, e.g., network coding. Applications of social networking in peer-to-peer systems, especially on file sharing, have recently received research attention...
In ubiquitous environments, resources limitations and fluctuations combined with device mobility requires the dynamic adaptation of mobile applications. This paper reports on an extension of the MUSIC adaptation middleware to support aspect-oriented programming in order to handle cross-cutting adaptations. Basically, this extension specifies an architectural model for defining applications as a composition...
Layered streaming is being considered as the most promising approach to adapt to bandwidth variations and heterogeneous end users in streaming applications. The goal of a layered streaming protocol is not only to optimize the average playback skip rate as in single-layer streaming, but also to maximize possible quality level (quality satisfaction) based on the available bandwidth capacity at the end...
Layered streaming can be used to adapt to the available download capacity of an end-user, and such adaptation is very much required in real world HTTP media streaming. The multiple layer codec has become more refined, as SVC (the scalable extension of the H.264/AVC standard) has been standardized with a bit rate overhead of around 10% and an indistinguishable visual quality, compared to the state...
In a sensor-aided cognitive radio network, collaborating battery-powered sensors are deployed to aid the network in cooperative spectrum sensing. These sensors consume energy for spectrum sensing and therefore deplete their life-time, thus we study the key issue in minimizing the sensing energy consumed by such group of collaborating sensors. The IEEE P802.22 standard specifies spectrum sensing accuracy...
Mobile computing systems should be self-managed to simplify operation and maintenance plus meet user’s expectation with respect to Quality of Service (QoS). When architecting self-managed mobile computing systems, one must take a holistic view on both QoS management and the entities in the mobile environment. This paper presents a novel model that includes both resources and context elements. To illustrate...
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