Current thin-client remote desktop systems were designed for data-oriented applications
over low-quality LAN links and they do not provide satisfactory end-user performance in …

The real-time streaming of bursty continuous media, such as variable-bit rate encoded
video, to buffered clients over networks can be made more efficient by collaboratively …

This dissertation presents a general design strategy for streaming media applications in best
effort computing and networking environments. Our target application scenario is video …

We introduce a variety of mechanisms to enable scalable, adaptive, and reliable quality of
service (QoS) guarantees across heterogeneous networking environments. The resultant …

The Internet needs to evolve from a single-service data network into the multiservice
intelligent IP-based network capable of satisfying diverse performance requirements. The …

Communication between a pair of nodes in the network may get disrupted due to failures of
links/nodes resulting in zero effective bandwidth between them during the recovery period. It …

Over low-bit-rate channels, we adopt the streaming of nonlinearly sampled video frames (ie,
key-frame slideshow) synchronized with the audio stream. Given the channel and buffer …

We study the potential and limitations of active networks in the context of adaptive
applications. We present a survey of active networking research applied to adaptive …

The use of multimedia within industrial applications has become commonplace, targetting
improved process monitoring and machine vision. In both cases, the multimedia information …

Media streaming technology consists of simultaneously downloading and reproducing
multimedia objects from the Internet without the need to store all the information in the …