Recent years have witnessed an explosive growth in multimedia streaming applications over the Internet. Notably, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks ha...
In this paper, we discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using network simulators to teach networking concepts versus having students write programs. The authors have experie...
In this paper, we formulate the utility functions of distortion and Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR) which are generally used for the performance evaluation of video coding appli...
The lecture notes cover the following topics,
Fundamentals (OSI Reference Model, Coding, Ethernet), Data Link Control (Flow Control, Error Control, HDLC, PPP), Internet Protocol ...
Many techniques have been discovered to improve performance of bulk data transfer protocols which use large messages. This paper describes a technique that improves protocol perfo...