— Rate adaptive multimedia streams offer significant system and client benefits over non-adaptive streams. These benefits come at the price of increased complexity in providin...
Capacity Planning has been a discipline practiced by IT since before the invention of the mainframe. It encompasses different measurement, analysis, modeling and reporting techniq...
Semiconductor fabs often offer manufacturing service of multiple priorities in terms of cycle time-based X-factor targets (XFTs) and fab production must be planned accordingly. Th...
The enhanced pay-per-view (EPPV) model for providing continuous-media-on-demand(CMOD) services associates with each continuous media clip a display frequency that dependson the cl...
The inherent instability and unreliability of peer-to-peer networks introduce several fundamental engineering challenges to multimedia streaming over peer-to-peer networks. First,...