We define the problem of inferring a “mixture of Markov chains” based on observing a stream of interleaved outputs from these chains. We show a sharp characterization of the i...
One major problem of existing methods to mine data streams is that it makes ad hoc choices to combine most recent data with some amount of old data to search the new hypothesis. T...
Already a popular application in the Internet, IPTV is becoming, among the service providers, a preferred alternative to conventional broadcasting technologies. Since many of the ...
Increasingly more users use mobile devices to watch videos streamed over wireless networks, and they demand more content at better quality. For example, market forecasts reveal th...
A novel solution to the reliable multicast problem is the “digital fountain” approach, in which data is encoded with an erasure protection code before transmission, and receiv...