IPTV is considered to be the next killer application. A key, challenging issue is inhome IPTV distribution with affordable deployment cost and sufficient flexibility, scalability,...
Emad Shihab, Lin Cai, Fengdan Wan, T. Aaron Gulliv...
Commodity hardware and software are growing increasingly more complex, with advances such as chip heterogeneity and specialization, deeper memory hierarchies, ne-grained power ma...
Recently, a number of researchers have started to investigate new video-on-demand (VoD) architectures using batching, patching and periodic broadcasting. These architectures, comp...
The concept of Automatically Switched Transport Networks (ASTN) combines elements of distributed connection management from the IP world with classical transport network functiona...
Unique challenges are present when one tries to build distributed real-time applications using standard o -the-shelf systems which are in common use but are not necessarily design...