—In this paper, we present Novasky, a real-world Video-on-Demand (VoD) system capable of delivering cinematicquality video streams to end users. The foundation of the Novasky des...
Fangming Liu, Shijun Shen, Bo Li, Baochun Li, Hao ...
ents a prototype system, called UbiCon system. By abstracting media streams into generic CONTENT entities, the system provides a simple and powerful means for services to operate m...
Haipeng Wang, Zhiwen Yu, Xingshe Zhou, Tao Zhang, ...
Querying live media streams captured by various sensors is becoming a challenging problem, due to the data heterogeneity and the lack of a unifying data model capable of accessing...
This paper presents a novel approach that simplifies real-time multimedia communication applications development and service provision. Such applications are no longer required to...
Traffic smoothing for delivery of online VBR media streams is one of the most important problems in designing multimedia systems. Given available client buffer and a window-slidin...
Distributed application programmers rely on middleware such as CORBA in order to handle the complexity that arises from the distributed and heterogeneous nature of the underlying ...
With the growth of computing power and the proliferation of broadband access to the Internet, the use of media streaming has become widely diffused. By using the P2P communication...
Querying live media streams is a challenging problem that is becoming an essential requirement in a growing number of applications. Research in multimedia information systems has ...
A multimedia system utilizes a set of correlated media streams each of which partially help in achieving the system goal. However, since not all of the streams always contribute t...