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Chapter and Conference Paper
Requirements for a Nutrition Education Demonstrator
[Context and Motivation] Development of innovative ICT-based applications is a complex process involving collaboration of all relevant disciplines. This complexity arises due to differences in terminology, knowle...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Context-Aware Optimal Assignment of a Chain-Like Processing Task onto Chain-Like Resources in M-Health
This paper focuses on the optimal assignment of a chain-structured medical task onto a chain of networked devices, a need identified in context-aware mobile healthcare applications. We propose a graph-based me...
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Chapter
Mobihealth: Mobile Services for Health Professionals
The concept behind the MobiHealth project (MobiHealth, 2002). was to bring together the technologies of Body Area Networks (BANs), wireless broadband communications and wearable devices to provide mobile healt...
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Chapter
Telematic Requirements for Emergency and Disaster Response Derived from Enterprise Models
One of the prime objectives of disaster response management is to gain control of the disaster situation as rapidly as possible. Observations have shown that coordination and communication between response tea...
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Chapter
Remote Monitoring for Healthcare and for Safety in Extreme Environments
In this chapter we examine the potential use of remote health monitoring using Body Area Networks (BANs) to support individuals who are working or pursuing recreational activities in extreme environments.
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Chapter
Mobihealth: Mobile Health Services Based on Body Area Networks
In this chapter we describe the concept of MobiHealth and the approach developed during the MobiHealth project (MobiHealth, 2002). The concept was to bring together the technologies of Body Area Networks (BANs...
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Article
Delivering Live Multimedia Streams to Mobile Hosts in a Wireless Internet with Multiple Content Aggregators
We consider the distribution of channels of live multimedia content (e.g., radio or TV broadcasts) via multiple content aggregators. In our work, an aggregator receives channels from content sources and redist...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
BANip: Enabling Remote Healthcare Monitoring with Body Area Networks
This paper presents a Java service platform for mobile healthcare that enables remote health monitoring using 2.5/3G public wireless networks. The platform complies with today’s healthcare delivery models, in ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Quality of Service and Service Provisioning on a Competitive Market
The objective of this paper is to provide an economic and commercial context for QoS research in open distributed environments. The analyses are based on a telecommunications value chain model. The model is us...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Middleware Support for Media Streaming Establishment Driven by User-Oriented QoS Requirements
The requirements for the QoS of distributed applications are traditionally expressed in terms of network oriented or systems oriented parameters. In general, the users of these services are not interested or c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multimedia teleservices modelled with the OSI application layer structure
This paper looks into the communications capabilities that are required by distributed multimedia applications to achieve relation preserving information exchange. These capabilities are derived by analyzing t...
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Chapter
TP Protocol from Specification to Implementation
This chapter reports the design activity undertaken by the task-group that specifies and implements’ the TP specific components of OSI-TP. The design trajectory does not include the realization of the protocol...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards an implementation-oriented specification of TP protocol in LOTOS
This paper presents an exercise in the specification and implementation design of a realistic OSI Application-layer protocol in accordance with the LotoSphere methodology. It also reports some of the experienc...
