— The frame-layer bit allocation problem for H.264 is studied in this work. We first impose a GOP (Group of Pictures) structure on the underlying H.264 video, and then develop a...
— We consider the novel problem of dynamically assigning application sessions of mobile users or user groups to service points. Such assignments must balance the tradeoff between...
In this paper, we study dynamic protocol update (DPU). Contrary to local code updates on-the-fly, DPU requires global coordination of local code replacements. We propose a novel ...
Re-ranking the search results using PageRank is a well-known technique used in modern search engines. Running an iterative algorithm like PageRank on a large web graph consumes bo...
Real-time media servers are becoming increasingly important as the Internet supports more and more multimedia applications. In order to meet these ever increasing demands, real-ti...