MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile video provides I, P, and B –type frames in each GOP (Group Of Pictures). To maximize the coding efficiency, it is important to determine the distr...
Recently, a new server-less architecture is proposed for building low-cost yet scalable video streaming systems. In this architecture, video blocks are distributed among user host...
In H.264/AVC [1], integer transforms are applied instead of the 8×8 discrete cosine transform (DCT) of previous standards to avoid inverse transform mismatch problems. However, th...
In this paper, a cooperative multicast scheme that uses Randomized Distributed Space Time Codes (RDSTC), along with packet level Forward Error Correction (FEC), is studied. For the...
Ozgu Alay, Zhili Guo, Yao Wang, Elza Erkip, Shiven...
Peer-to-peer technologies are increasingly becoming the medium of choice for delivering media content, both professional and homegrown, to large user populations. Indeed, current ...