Utility computing was a vision stated more than 40 years ago. It refers to the idea that
computing resources and services can be delivered, utilized, and paid for as utilities such as …

In heterogeneous environments with performance variations present, multiple applications
compete for and share a limited amount of system resources and suffer from variations in …

In this volume the important concept of switched and impulsive control is discussed, with a
wide field of applications in the analysis and control of complex systems. This monograph …

Adaptive resource allocation for multimedia quality of service (QoS) support in broadband
wireless networks is examined in this work. A service model consisting of three service …

Predicting the location of a mobile wireless user is an inherently interesting and challenging
problem. Location prediction has received increasing interest over the past decade, driven …

The aim of this book is not to describe new wireless access technologies that will replace the
third generation (3G) technologies, but to describe a complete ecosystem of technologies …

We identify the importance of adaptation for the ubiquitous access to Internet multimedia
content. The variety of media types combined with the diversity of Internet connection …

Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) are a fundamental element of pervasive networks,
where user can communicate anywhere, any time and on the fly. MANETs introduce a new …

Mobile multimedia systems must provide application quality of service (QoS) in the presence
of dynamically varying and multiple resource constraints (eg, variations in available CPU …

Recently there is a growing interest in the adaptive multimedia networking where the
bandwidth of an ongoing multimedia call can be dynamically adjusted. In the …