Bandwidth smoothing techniques are effective at reducing the burstiness of a compressed,
pre-recorded video stream by prefetching frames into the client playback buffer in advance …

Bandwidth smoothing techniques for the delivery of compressed prerecorded video have
been shown effective in removing the burstiness required for the continuous playback of …

We present a high-performance prefetching protocol for the delivery of prerecorded VBR
video from a server across a packet-switched network to a large number of clients. Not only …

Low latency is crucial in networked multimedia applications such as on-demand streaming
audio and video. In this paper we consider the problem of restarting or resuming playback …

The burstiness of compressed video complicates the provisioning of network resources for
emerging multimedia services. For stored video applications, the server can smooth the …

The use of a client-side buffer in the delivery of compressed prerecorded video can be an
effective tool for removing the burstiness required of the underlying server and network by …

The prevalence of computer networks has shifted the computing paradigm from mainframe
or host-centric computing to network-centric computing. In network-centric computing …