This paper addresses the replacement of acknowledgement based protocols for
teleoperation. The initial sections compare the currently used protocols like HTTP and TCP …

Lacking better methodology is one main factor that prevents remote healthcare application
development using wearable sensors. Sensor devices and data heterogeneity are two …

This paper describes a novel Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) architecture. The
proposed solution uses an add-on component, named WS-Gateway (WebSocket-based …

Wireless Personal or Body Area Networks (WPANs or WBANs) are the main mechanisms to
develop healthcare systems for an ageing society. Such systems offer monitoring, security …

Mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets support kinds of mobile computing and
services. They can access to the cloud or offload the computation-intensive part to the cloud …

In an effort to automate manual life science processes for high throughput and accuracy, we
previously observed that perceived operator workload could be used to identify taxing tasks …

Surveillance systems that automatically detect illegal behaviors performed by people
unaware of the camera have a wide range of applications: security, healthcare, conservation …

Wireless Personal or Body Area Networks (WPANs or WBANs) are the main mechanisms to
develop healthcare systems for an ageing society. Such systems offer monitoring, security …

Real-time components are becoming ubiquitous parts of modern web applications. Chat
services like Facebook Messenger or real-time collaborative tools like Google Docs are …

The goal of this thesis was to research technologies that support real-time communication in
web applications and, in particular, implications on scalability and high availability. The …