Application layer multicast (ALM) provides a low-cost solution for multicast over the Internet. It overcomes the deployment hurdle of IP multicast by moving all multicast related ...
Emerging IPTV technology uses source-specific IP multicast to deliver TV programs to the end-users. To provide timely and reliable services over the error-prone DSL access networ...
— Multiple description coding (MDC) has emerged as a powerful technique for reliable real-time communications over lossy packet networks. In its basic form, it involves encoding ...
Real-time media servers are becoming increasingly important as the Internet supports more and more multimedia applications. In order to meet these ever increasing demands, real-ti...
A key challenge facing wireless networking is to utilize the spectrum as e ciently as possible given current channel conditions and in the most e ective way for each application. ...