Innovative technologies, implemented in web browsers, have led to the rise of a new era of
virtual worlds. Devices with strong hardware installed may now present 3D virtual worlds …

This chapter elaborates on energy usage optimization issues by exploiting a resource
offloading process based on a social-oriented mobile cloud scheme. The adoption of the …

This chapter at first surveys the Web technologies that can enable ubiquitous and pervasive
multimedia communications over the Web and then reviews the challenges that are raised …

Recent advances in web technologies have now created a ubiquitous environment for cross-
platform and cross-device multimedia applications. Media files can now be reproduced in a …

This chapter presents a novel network architecture for optimal and balanced provision of
multimedia services. The proposed architecture includes a central Management and Control …

Given the findings from previous studies, assessing green practice behavior proved to be a
challenging task because the intention claimed does not always reflect actual behavior. In …