We provide an overview of an architecture of today's Internet streaming media delivery networks and describe various problems that such systems pose with regard to video codin...
Gregory J. Conklin, Gary S. Greenbaum, Karl Olav L...
Resource and service discovery, data transfer or replica management, are some examples of basic operations of a grid which can gain efficiency by using multicast transmission tech...
This paper proposes a semi-reliable multicast protocol that evaluates the necessity of retransmitting lost packets, taking into account the priority associated to each lost packet...
Christiane M. Bortoleto, Lau Cheuk Lung, Frank Siq...
True VoD systems provide interactive on-demand video service by allocating each client a dedicated stream. Such a scheme is inefficient when the system has a large number of users...
Bahjat Qazzaz, Remo Suppi, Fernando Cores, Ana Rip...
The main purpose of many current peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is off-line file sharing. However, a potentially very promising use of such networks is to share video streams (e.g.,...