Interactive communication services as telephony and video-conferences use the infrastructure of existing LANs and the Internet more and more. The advantages are obvious. For examp...
Many tools exist for developing real-time distributed groupware, but most of these tools focus primarily on the performance of the resulting system, or on simplifying the developm...
Asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks must define multicast capabilities in order to efficiently support numerous applications, such as video conferencing and distributed appli...
The widespread popularity of roaming wireless devices with limited and heterogeneous capabilities is enabling new challenging deployment scenarios for multimedia streaming in wire...
Paolo Bellavista, Antonio Corradi, Carlo Giannelli
In this paper, we present a network service specifically designed for multimedia servers. It uses a histogram based traffic characterization and an overload control protocol to el...