With BitTorrent-like protocols a client may download a file from a large and changing set of peers, using connections of heterogeneous and timevarying bandwidths. This flexibility ...
We consider the problem of rate-distortion optimized streaming of packetized media over the Internet from a server to a client using rich acknowledgments. Instead of separately ac...
Traffic smoothing for delivery of online VBR media streams is one of the most important problems in designing multimedia systems. Given available client buffer and a window-slidin...
The wide availability of broadband networking technologies such as cable modems and DSL coupled with the growing popularity of the Internet has led to a dramatic increase in the a...
The main function of a continuous media server is to concurrently stream data from storage to multiple clients over a network. The resulting streams will congest the host CPU bus,...