Web caching is an important technique to scale the Internet. One important performance
factor of Web caches is the replacement strategy. Due to specific characteristics of the World …

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With the wide availability of high-speed network access, we are experiencing high quality
streaming media delivery over the Internet. The emergence of ubiquitous computing enables …

The efficient distribution of stored information has become a major concern in the Internet
which has increasingly become a vehicle for the transport of stored video. Because of the …

Streaming media on the Internet has experienced rapid growth over the last few years and
will continue to increase in importance as broadband technologies and authoring tools …

Streaming media objects are often cached in segments. Previous segment-based caching
strategies cache segments with constant or exponentially increasing lengths and typically …

Multimedia proxy caching is a client-oriented solution for large-scale delivery of high quality
streams over heterogeneous networks such as the Internet. Existing solutions for multimedia …

Researchers often use segment-based proxy caching strategies to deliver streaming media
by partially caching media objects. The existing strategies mainly consider increasing the …

To efficiently deliver streaming media, researchers have developed technical solutions that
fall into three categories, each of which has its merits and limitations. Infrastructure-based …

In this paper, we present a mobile streaming media CDN (Content Delivery Network)
architecture in which content segmentation, request routing, pre-fetch scheduling, and …