Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) has emerged as a new delivery method for TV. In contrast with native broadcast in traditional cable and satellite TV system, video streams in I...
We study video transcoding for accelerated channel changes in IPTV systems. Video transcoding at the Retransmission Server not only reduces the channel change latency, but also re...
Technological evolution is leading telecommunications to all-IP networks where multiple services are transported as IP packets. Among these are the group communications services w...
Understanding the channel popularity or content popularity is an important step in the workload characterization for modern information distribution systems (e.g., World Wide Web,...