The increasing performance and decreasing cost of processors and memory are causing system intelligence to move into peripherals from the CPU. Storage system designers are using t...
Near-Video-on-Demand (NVOD) provides customers with a service model completely different from true Video-on-Demand (VOD). In the NVOD service model, customers’ requests are not ...
In this paper, we present a network service specifically designed for multimedia servers. It uses a histogram based traffic characterization and an overload control protocol to el...
— Scalable encoding scheme enables the player or streaming server to adaptively change the playback rate of multimedia content. However, in scalable streaming of layer encoded co...
A multimedia server needs to satisfy the temporal ordering of multimedia data streams when servicing a client. Multimedia data has high bandwidth requirements, and within a networ...