Over the last couple of years, there has been an exponential increase in the number of
applications accessible from various mobile handsets, including Facebook, Twitter …

HTTP streaming has become a cost-effective means for multimedia delivery nowadays. For
adaptivity to networks and terminals, a provider should generate multiple representations of …

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We study the dynamic scheduling of multiple deadline constrained tasks in a serving system
with N servers and a public queue with M positions. Under stochastic task arrivals and …

The continuous evolution of smart devices has led to serious limitations in multimedia
applications. The multimedia graphic design and animation and the increased use of rich …

This paper proposes novel resource management mechanisms for multimedia services in
3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) networks aimed at enhancing session establishment …

Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) provide continuous body health monitoring and analysis of
physiological parameters. A high degree of security and privacy protection for BSN is …

A common transcoding operation consists of reducing the file size of a JPEG image to meet
bandwidth or device constraints. This can be achieved by reducing its quality factor (QF) or …

Three different advanced adaptation techniques for improving the video perception of users
are proposed in this paper. The proposed techniques exploit different adaptation decision …

Several quality-aware transcoding systems and methods are described, in which the impact
of both quality factor (QF) and Scaling parameter choices on the quality of transcoded …