—Since the inception of network coding in information theory, we have witnessed a sharp increase of research interest in its applications in communications and networking, where ...
As an efficient distribution mechanism, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology has become a tremendously attractive solution to offload servers in large-scale video streaming applications. ...
IP multicast has fueled an assortment of large-scale applications over the Internet ranging from interactive video conferencing to whiteboards to video recording on-demand systems...
The Grid is realizing the vision of providing computation as utility: computation jobs can be scheduled on-demand in Grid hosts based on available computation capacity. In this pa...
Near-Video-On-Demand (NVOD) entails the provision of viewing flexibility that approaches that of VOD to an unlimited number of viewers of a "hot" movie at afixed cost to...