Internet streaming applications are affected by adverse network conditions such as high packet loss rates and long delays. This paper aims at mitigating such effects by leveraging...
To support various bandwidth requirements for mobile multimedia services for future heterogeneous mobile environments, a transcoding video proxy is usually necessary to provide ad...
Proxies are commonly used to cache objects, especially multimedia objects, so that clients can enjoy better quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees such as smaller startup latency and...
With the falling price of the memory, an increasing number of multimedia servers and proxies are now equipped with a large memory space. Caching media objects in the memory of a p...
A web service is a programmable web application accessible using standard Internet protocols. A threelayer architecture has been suggested for web services: service providers, ser...