The designers of a large scale video-on-demand system face an optimization problem of deciding how to assign movies to multiple disks (servers) such that the request blocking proba...
Jun Guo, Eric Wing Ming Wong, Sammy Chan, Peter Ta...
This paper presents a model for watermarking and some attacks on watermarks. Given the watermarked signal, the so-called Wiener attack performs minimum mean-squared error (MMSE) es...
Abstract--The Internet provides a universal platform for largescale distribution of information and supports inter-organizational services, system integration, and collaboration. U...
James B. D. Joshi, Zhaohui Kevin Li, Husni Fahmi, ...
In this paper a hybrid fractal and Discrete Cosine transform (DCT) coder is developed. Drawing on the ability of DCT to remove inter-pixel redundancies and on the ability of fracta...
With the rapid performance improvements in low-cost PCs, it becomes increasingly practical and cost-effective to implement large-scale video-on-demand (VoD) systems around parallel...