Abstract Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) have gained increasing attention as an attractive
means to provide connectivity in complement to access as offered by regular Internet …

Overlay management systems face the challenges of increased complexity and
heterogeneity because of the many elements involved in providing overlay services. In …

Recently, the Internet has been overrun by a diversity of devices, applications, technologies,
and Internet users with increasingly demanding personal preferences. Due to the explosive …

Content delivery through service overlay networks has gained popularity due to the overlays'
abilities to provide effective and reliable services. Inefficiencies of one-to-one matching of …

Many countries are facing an ever-growing need to supply constant care and support for
their disabled and elderly populations. So the importance to remote monitoring is becoming …

The constant growth in network communications technologies and the emergence of Service
Specific Overlay Networks (SSONs), coupled with the rapid development of multimedia …

As more and more people living by their own, the importance to remote monitoring is
becoming essential for looking after them. But protecting personal privacy is going to be a …

In the modern society, new devices, applications and technologies, with sophisticated
capabilities, are converging in the same network infrastructure. Users are also increasingly …

The advent of pervasive environments and the future Internet has brought on heterogeneity,
large scale and dynamicity in current networking infrastructures, which nonetheless also …

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PARA JOGOS EM REDES PEER-TO-PEER Bernardo de Melo Pacheco Dissertaçao de Mestrado …