We consider the following basic question: a source node wishes to stream an ordered sequence of packets to a collection of receivers, which are distributed among a number of clust...
Alix L. H. Chow, Leana Golubchik, Samir Khuller, Y...
—With the co-existence of different wireless networks, which exhibit largely different bandwidth and coverage characteristics, much interest has been involved in integrating thes...
—The main goal of a streaming application is to enable the successful decoding of each video object before its displaying deadline is violated, and to recover from a deadline vio...
Excessive buffer requirement to handle continuous-media playbacks is an impediment to costeffective provisioning for on-line video retrieval. Given the skewed distribution of video...
—The current best-effort Internet does not guarantee the bandwidth availability between a receiver and a sender, and so renders any quality-of-service (QoS) control difficult, if...