This report describes a pay broadcasting system for the Internet. This system would enable tens of thousands of people to access an identical video stream simultaneously. In this ...
Today’s large-scale distributed systems consist of collections of nodes that have highly variable availability — a phenomenon sometimes called churn. This availability variati...
Distributed queuing is a fundamental coordination problem, arising in a variety of applications, including distributed shared memory, distributed directories, and totally ordered ...
In this paper we describe a hybrid sender and receiver-based adaptation scheme for multicast transmission of multimedia data using layered encoding, which we call SRAMT-LE (Sender-...
—Current multimedia application deployment tends to rely on composable service systems, where a complex multimedia service can be composed dynamically from multiple simpler ones ...