As more and more video content is made available and accessed on-demand, content and service providers face challenges of scale. Today’s delivery mechanisms, especially unicast,...
Vaneet Aggarwal, A. Robert Calderbank, Vijay Gopal...
We consider the setting of a web server that receives requests for documents from clients, and returns the requested documents over a multicast/broadcast channel. We compare the q...
In an on-demand video server environment, clients make requests for movies to a centralized video server. Due to the stringent response time requirements, continuous delivery of a...
In traditional job scheduling systems for the Grid, a single or a few machines handle information of all computing resources and scheduling tasks. This centralized approach is not...
Media distribution through application-layer overlay networks has received considerable attention recently, owing to its flexible and readily deployable nature. On-demand streaming...