— Providing video-on-demand streaming service to a large population of clients using peer-to-peer approach is drawing great interest recently. Since clients’ demands are asynch...
A peer-to-peer model is very useful in solving the server link bottleneck problem of a client-server model. In this work, we discuss the problems of distributing multimedia content...
When media is streamed over best-effort networks, a buffer at the client protects against playout interruptions due to variations in the data arrival rate. While the amount of pro...
With the ongoing advancements in VLSI technology, the performance of an embedded system is determined to a large extend by the communication of data and instructions. This results...
In this paper we present a technique for reducing response delay for web systems, which is based on a proactive cache scheme. It combines predictive pre-fetching and streaming to ...