... of multimedia applications and on the possible communication patterns considering different topological variants for heterogeneous Internet‐ATM networks. Computer architectures Internet ISDN Multimedia Service quality Multimedia systems have attracted much attention during the last few years...

... applies the slow‐start algorithm, making the adjustment very slow indeed. Cellular communications Computer architectures Distributed data processing Internet Mobile communications Nomadicity (Kleinrock, 1997) has created a new epoch in computing through new challenges to client‐server...

... “service‐dependant filtering”. An additional check could be to determine if a packet has been transmitted during a defined period of time (Pohlmann, 1997), preventing a retransmit or man in the middle attack. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Computer architectures Computer networks Information...

..., while each of the overlay perspectives would contain information specific to a different product within the family. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Computer architectures Parallel computing Systems management Unlike other hypertext systems where there exists a global scheme that guides...

... and the efficiency and flexibility of current implementations are evaluated in a comparative manner. Finally, upcoming extensions are discussed. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Computer architectures Computer programming Distributed data processing Internet Security The most important capability...

... for the monitoring of electrical discharge machines (Hofmann, 1997). The component‐based development of this prototype made it possible to adapt it for the monitoring of stock prices (only one of six components had to be developed, five could be reused as‐is). Component manufacture Computer architectures...

... components and their interaction with local PCEs. Computer architectures Computer languages Decentralized computing Internet Process control Concerning the definition of complex processes out of the basic operations, the balance is between expressiveness and complexity. In order to preserve...