Adaptive streaming addresses the increasing and heterogenous demand of multimedia content over the Internet by offering several encoded versions for each video sequence. Each version (or representation) has a different resolution and bit rate, aimed at a s ...
Location check-ins contain both geographical and semantic information about the visited venues, in the form of tags (e.g., “restaurant”). Such data might reveal some personal information about users beyond what they actually want to disclose, hence their p ...
Motivated by the caching problem introduced by Maddah-Ali and Niesen, a problem of distributed source coding with side information is formulated, which captures a distinct interesting aspect of caching. For the single-user case, a single-letter characteriz ...
Equipped with state-of-the-art smartphones and mobile devices, today's highly interconnected urban population is increasingly dependent on these gadgets to organize and plan their daily lives. These applications often rely on current (or preferred) locatio ...
