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 ...
—We consider the general scenario where content hosted by the server comprises streams and each peer can subscribe one or more streams. Multiple multicast trees are built to deli...
Proxies are commonly used to cache objects, especially multimedia objects, so that clients can enjoy better quality-of-service (QoS) guarantees such as smaller startup latency and...
This paper presents a constant quality video rate control (CQVRC) scheme for MPEG-4 FGS (fine-grain scalability) video. The proposed scheme can mitigate quality variations among ...
In this paper, we present two novel disk failure recovery methods that utilize the inherent characteristics of video streams for efficient recovery. Whereas the first method explo...