One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …

The increasing availability of continuous-media data is provoking a significant change in
Internet workloads. For example, video from news, sports, and entertainment sites, and …

As streaming video and audio over the Internet becomes popular, proper proxy caching of
large multimedia objects has become increasingly important. For a large media object, such …

Due to the technical developments in electronics the amount of digital content is
continuously increasing. In order to make digital content respectively multimedia content …

Streaming audio and video applications are becoming increasingly popular on the Internet,
and the lack of effective congestion control in such applications is now a cause for significant …

The Internet has witnessed a rapid growth in deployment of Web-based streaming
applications during recent years. In these applications, the server should be able to perform …

As the capacity demand of mobile applications keeps increasing, the backhaul network is
becoming a bottleneck to support high quality of experience (QoE) in next-generation …

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for enhancing existing caching
systems to better support streaming multimedia (SM) over the Internet and other public …

This paper describes MiddleMan, a collection of cooperating proxy servers connected by a
local area network (LAN). MiddleMan differs from existing proxy research in that it …

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