Video-on-demand (VOD) is a very promising multimedia application of the near future. In order for such a service to be commercially viable, efficient storage and retrieval schemes...
In this paper we present a new approach for the automated mapping of formal descriptions into activity thread implementations. Our approach resolves semantic conflicts by reorderi...
Traffic smoothing for delivery of online VBR media streams is one of the most important problems in designing multimedia systems. Given available client buffer and a window-slidin...
: Most of the Web traffic today uses the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), with the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) as the underlying transport protocol. TCP provides several...
Israel Cidon, Raphael Rom, Amit Gupta, Christoph L...
When modelling complex systems one can not include all the causal factors, but one has to settle for partial models. This is alright if the factors left out are either so constant...