This brief presents a peer-to-peer (P2P) web-hosting infrastructure (named pWeb) that can transform networked, home-entertainment devices into lightweight collaborating Web servers for persistently storing and serving multimedia and web content....

With the continual growth in telecommunication services in today\'s multimedia environment, reliability and control are essential elements in the provision of services. This book addresses the need for an integration of service and management in multimedia networks in order to facilitate greater accuracy and quality in the services provided....

Feature interactions are related to the creation, maintenance, and evolution of new services (telephony, electronic commerce, multimedia, banking, etc.), and to the implementation of these services across distributed platforms....