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...
We consider distributed applications that continuously stream data across the network, where data needs to be aggregated and processed to produce a 'useful' stream of up...
Vibhore Kumar, Brian F. Cooper, Zhongtang Cai, Gre...
Image and video codecs are prevalent in multimedia devices, ranging from embedded systems, to desktop computers, to high-end servers such as HDTV editing consoles. It is not uncom...
M. Drake, Henry Hoffmann, Rodric M. Rabbah, Saman ...
We present a novel single source peer-to-peer multicast architecture called GridMedia which mainly consists of 1) multi-sender based overlay multicast protocol (MSOMP) and 2) mult...
Meng Zhang, Yun Tang, Li Zhao, Jian-Guang Luo, Shi...
Excessive buffer requirement to handle continuous-media playbacks is an impediment to costeffective provisioning for on-line video retrieval. Given the skewed distribution of video...