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Privacy in Pervasive Systems: Legal Framework and Regulatory Challenges (2011)
Book Chapter
Liotta, A., & Liotta, A. (2011). Privacy in Pervasive Systems: Legal Framework and Regulatory Challenges. In Pervasive Computing and Communications Design and Deployment: Technologies, Trends and Applications (263-277). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.401

Data protection legislation has developed in a digital communication context that is changing dramatically. Infrastructure-based, networked systems are increasingly interconnecting and interoperating with infrastructure-less or even spontaneous netwo... Read More about Privacy in Pervasive Systems: Legal Framework and Regulatory Challenges.

Networks for Pervasive Services: Six Ways to Upgrade the Internet (2011)
Book
Liotta, A., & Exarchakos, G. (2011). Networks for Pervasive Services: Six Ways to Upgrade the Internet. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1473-1

Since its inception in the 1970s the Internet has become larger, faster and wireless. It is the biggest machine ever built, the “generative” engine of our digital society. However, the software that runs the global network has not seen any substantia... Read More about Networks for Pervasive Services: Six Ways to Upgrade the Internet.

Can Skype be used beyond video calling? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Exarchakos, G., Menkovski, V., & Liotta, A. (2011). Can Skype be used beyond video calling?. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing and Multimedia (155-161). https://doi.org/10.1145/2095697.2095725

Skype nodes generate a substantial part of real-time bi-directional video traffic nowadays. Employing a range of adaptive mechanisms, the application configures video streaming to meet the requirements of the communication and constraints of the unde... Read More about Can Skype be used beyond video calling?.

The value of relative quality in video delivery (2011)
Journal Article
Menkovski, V., Exarchakos, G., & Liotta, A. (2011). The value of relative quality in video delivery. Journal of Mobile Multimedia, 7(3), 151-162

Estimating perceived quality of video is typically done by gauging the user's response on an absolute scale of ratings (excellent, good, fair, poor and bad). However, the internal representation of these adjectives to the stimuli varies significantly... Read More about The value of relative quality in video delivery.