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...
Continuous-media (CM) servers have been around for some years. Apart from server capacity, another important issue in the deployment of CM servers is reliability. This study invest...
Recent techniques for multicast or broadcast delivery of streaming media can provide immediate service to each client request yet achieve considerable client stream sharing (i.e.,...
Abstract. In distributed streaming media server clusters, by adopting cooperative caching (CC) technique, the free memory of all the servers can be combined to form a bigger, logic...
Variable bit rate (VBR) compression for media streams allocates more bits to complex scenes and fewer bits to simple scenes. This results in a higher and more uniform visual and au...
Roger Zimmermann, Cyrus Shahabi, Kun Fu, Mehrdad J...