We present a stream tapping protocol that involves clients in the video distribution process. As in conventional stream tapping, our protocol allows new clients to tap the most recent broadcast of the video they are watching. While conventional stream tapping required the server to send to these clients the part of the video they missed, our protocol delegates this task to the clients that are ...

Due to the increasing usage of small and low footprinted devices like mobile phones as clients of mobile information systems a new problem arises: “How to determine the relevance of updates for a large number of mobile clients?” In this paper we present an indexing scheme that represents conjunctive queries posed by the mobile clients in a trie. So, IDs of the clients are referenced by their qu...