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NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
ACE: an active, client-directed method for reducing energy during web browsing
In mobile devices, the wireless network interface card (WNIC) consumes a significant portion of overall system energy. One way to reduce energy consumed by a device is to transit...
Haijin Yan, David K. Lowenthal, Kang Li
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
A formal approach to design optimized multimedia service overlay
Service overlay networks have recently attracted tremendous interests. In this paper, we propose a new integrated framework for specifying services composed of service components ...
Hirozumi Yamaguchi, Khaled El-Fakih, Akihito Hirom...
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Adjusting forward error correction with quality scaling for streaming MPEG
Packet loss can severely impact streaming video quality. Repair techniques protect streaming video from packet loss but at the price of a reduced effective transmission rate when...
Huahui Wu, Mark Claypool, Robert E. Kinicki
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Hierarchical disk sharing for multimedia systems
Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...
Joel C. Wu, Scott A. Banachowski, Scott A. Brandt
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Real-time monitoring of video quality in IP networks
This paper investigates the problem of assessing the quality of video transmitted over IP networks. Our goal is to develop a methodology that is both reasonably accurate and simpl...
Shu Tao, John G. Apostolopoulos, Roch Guéri...
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Peer-to-peer internet telephony using SIP
P2P systems inherently have high scalability, robustness and fault tolerance because there is no centralized server and the network self-organizes itself. This is achieved at the ...
Kundan Singh, Henning Schulzrinne
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Natural selection in peer-to-peer streaming: from the cathedral to the bazaar
Success of peer-to-peer applications in many cases is attributed to user altruism, where a user contributes some of its own resources to facilitate performance of other users. Thi...
Vivek Shrivastava, Suman Banerjee
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Meeting CPU constraints by delaying playout of multimedia tasks
Multimedia applications today constitute a significant fraction of the workload running on portable devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and MP3 players. However, the processors i...
Balaji Raman, Samarjit Chakraborty, Wei Tsang Ooi
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Interactive media server with media synchronized RAID storage system
We propose an efficient placement algorithm and per-disk prefetching method to effectively support interactive operations in the media server. Our placement policy is incorporate...
Seung Ho Lim, Yo-Won Jeong, Kyu Ho Park
NOSSDAV
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Weather forecasting: predicting performance for streaming video over wireless LANs
The growth of wireless LANs has brought the expectation for high-bitrate streaming video to wireless PCs. However, it remains unclear how wireless channel characteristics impact t...
Mingzhe Li, Feng Li, Mark Claypool, Robert E. Kini...