: As multimedia contents are becoming widely used in ubiquitous computing environments among many application fields, e.g., education, entertainment, and live surveillance, the dem...
—The advent of media-sharing sites, especially along with the so called Web 2.0 wave, has led to the unprecedented Internet delivery of community-contributed media contents such ...
With many multimedia delivery schemes a client does not necessarily receive a given media content entirely (e.g. router congestions can lead some information to be lost). Mechanism...
As the use of applications employing video contents becomes widespread, it is crucial for representation systems to be able to handle video effectively and flexibly. In this pape...
Multimedia streaming applications have stringent QoS requirements. Typically each packet is associated with a packet delivery deadline. This work models and considers realtime stre...