—Many important audio coding applications, such as streaming and playback of stored audio, involve offline compression. In such scenarios, encoding delays no longer represent a ...
—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...
Allocating resources in networks to QoS flows may require undesirable delays or costs. We consider a dynamic Service Level Agreement (SLA) negotiation scheme between peer autonomo...
In the current Internet picture more than 70% of the hosts are located behind Network Address Translators (NATs). This is not a problem in the client/server paradigm. However, the...
Abstract. Multimedia servers are increasingly employing parallel systems for the retrieval, scheduling and delivery of streaming multimedia content. However, given non-zero blockin...