Omnidirectional or 360° video is increasingly being used, mostly due to the latest
advancements in immersive Virtual Reality (VR) technology. However, its wide adoption is …

The future of mobile and internet technologies are manifesting advancements beyond the
existing scope of science. The concepts of automated driving, augmented-reality, and …

Advancements in smart devices, wearable gadgets, sensors, and communication paradigm
have enabled the vision of smart cities, pervasive healthcare, augmented reality and …

The Internet of Vehicles (IoV) connects vehicles, roadside units (RSUs) and other intelligent
objects, enabling data sharing among them, thereby improving the efficiency of urban traffic …

Live video streaming services have experienced significant growth since the emergence of
social networking paradigms in recent years. In this scenario, adaptive bitrate streaming …

5G communication brings substantial improvements in the quality of service provided to
various applications by achieving higher throughput and lower latency. However, interactive …

Crowdsourcing can play an important role in the Internet of Things (IoT) applications for
information sensing and gathering where the participants are equipped with geolocated …

In recent years, there has been growing popularity of Virtual Reality (VR), enabled by
technologies like 360° video streaming. Streaming 360° video is extremely challenging due …

Edge computing (EC) offers cloud-like services at the edge of mobile networks to satisfy the
delay-sensitive and rapid computation applications in meeting the demands of rapidly …

In software engineering, knowledge about recurrent problems, along with blueprints of
associated solutions for diverse design contexts, are often captured in so-called design …