Abstract— An important issue for supporting multimedia applications in multiple heterogeneous networks, a typical pervasive computing environment, is how to optimize the rate all...
Liang Zhou, Benoit Geller, Anne Wei, Baoyu Zheng, ...
Abstract— Service availability is one of the most closely scrutinized metrics in offering network services. It is important to costeffectively provision a managed and differentia...
Dahai Xu, Ying Li, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderba...
— A streaming system based on the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension of H.264/AVC is shown. SVC allows for data rate adaptation without re-encoding just by dropping packets of...
Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge, Shpend Mirta, Ka...
— We discuss the effect of physical impairments on manycasting service over optical burst-switched (OBS) networks. Signal quality degradation in manycast networks is an important...
Balagangadhar G. Bathula, Rajesh R. C. Bikram, Vin...
One of the most important traffic types in future packet-switched networks is high-bandwidth, variable-bitrate (VBR) video. Since video is a delay-sensitive media, the network mus...