IEEE 802.15.3 efficiently uses time-division multipleaccess (TDMA) to support the quality of service (QoS) for multimedia traffic. In the TDMA mechanism, however, there is a signi...
Several scalable media codecs have been standardized in recent years to cope with heterogeneous usage conditions and to aim at always providing audio, video and image content in t...
Abstract--To effectively address the explosive growth of multimedia applications over the Internet, a large-scale media streaming system has to fully take into account the issues o...
Recently there have been considerable interests focusing on the performance evaluation of IEEE 802.11e Medium Access Control (MAC) protocols, which were proposed for supporting Qu...
The paper describes recent progress in research on database system support for executing multimedia presentations. It proposes the general concept of Reactive Playout Management t...
Heiko Thimm, Wolfgang Klas, Jonathan Walpole, Calt...