Most new entrants into the mobile commerce marketplace are faced with a paradox; how can we attract users without merchants, and how can we attract merchants without customers? Wi...
Peer-to-peer based streaming has been a promising solution for large-scale video broadcasting over the Internet. In a peer-to-peer video streaming framework, peers cooperate with ...
It has been commonly recognized that multiple bit-rate (MBR) encoding provides a concise method for video streaming over bandwidth-fluctuant networks. The key problem of the MBR t...
Radio hardware used for the reception of 802.11b frames is capable of associating a Signal to Silence Ratio (SSR) with each received frame. If a received frame is corrupted, then ...
Shirish S. Karande, Utpal Parrikar, Kiran Misra, H...
In this paper, we study Skype and Google Talk, two widely used VoIP systems, and compare their perceptual speech quality with that of our proposed system using UDP packet traces c...