Efficiency is essential for Video-on-Demand (VOD) to be successful. Conventional VOD servers are inefficient; they dedicate a disk stream for each client, quickly using up all ava...
In this paper, we make a survey of Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol (DVMRP)andfind that it is not optimal in the aspect of network cost (NC). Therefore, we propose a mod...
This paper presents the results of a 40-day reliability study on a set of 97 popular Web sites done from an end user’s perspective. Data for the study was acquired by periodical...
Mahesh Kalyanakrishnan, Ravishankar K. Iyer, Jaqdi...
With the advances in server technology, and the advent of fast Gigabit networks, it has become possible to support multi-media applications. To support the requirements for the tr...
Most approaches to scalable reliable multicast utilize receiver-oriented retransmissions. Defining an API for receiver-oriented reliable multicast is difficult because it is not c...