The development of wireless technologies shows a trend to heterogeneous wireless
network (HWN), which attracts extensive attention on the research. Compared with a real …

The home network is an open, heterogeneous and distributed environment with quality of
service requirement. Existing resource reservation strategies modify devices and …

The emergence of plug-n-play protocols, multimedia and ubiquitous applications is shaping
the human habitat into a digital one. The actual plug-n-play device proliferation encourages …

Multi-device (or distributed) multimedia applications are programs designed for exploring
multiple devices during their execution. Most of these applications allow users to interact …

In this paper, we propose an efficient and accurate traffic management scheme by using
multi-channel sniffer and analyzer tool for wireless networks. It is very important to manage …

This paper presents a framework to provide the right amount of resources to legacy
multimedia application. Thus, these applications will provide the expected user-level QoS …

Home network reservation is classically based on token bucket policy. Token bucket
parameter setting is a trade-off between maximizing the quality of service and optimizing the …

The availability of annotated multimedia contents is a crucial requirement for a number of
applications. In the context of education it could support the automatic summarization of …

We consider the problem of streaming media transmission in a heterogeneous network from
a multisource server to home multiple terminals. In wired network, the transmission …

The high increase of bandwidth‐intensive applications like high definition video streaming in
home and small office environments leads to QoS challenges in hybrid wired/wireless local …