This paper deals with the adaptation problem raised by the fact that H.264/AVC standard is rapidly being adopted by content and service providers while at the user side MPEG-2 equ...
This paper presents a novel approach that simplifies real-time multimedia communication applications development and service provision. Such applications are no longer required to...
We consider the problem of distributing “live” streaming media content to a potentially large and highly dynamic population of hosts. Peer-to-peer content distribution is attr...
Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Helen J. Wang, Philip A. C...
Pervasive computing environments are characterized by an additional heterogeneity compared to existing computing infrastructures. Devices ranging from small embedded systems to fu...
In distributed systems, transcoding techniques have been used to customize multimedia objects, utilizing trade-offs between the quality and sizes of these objects to provide diffe...