Although initially proposed as the deployable alternative to Internet protocol multicast, the
application-layer overlay network actually revolutionizes the way network applications can …

In one embodiment, the invention is a method and appara tus for failure recovery for stream
processing applications. One embodiment of a method for providing a failure recovery …

Streaming media has contributed to a significant amount of today's Internet traffic. Like
conventional Web objects (eg, HTML pages and images), media objects can benefit from …

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

The proliferation of multimedia content on the Internet poses challenges to existing content
delivery networks. While proxy caching can successfully deliver traditional text-based static …

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

Advances in computing hardware, communica-tions technologies, and novel multimedia
applications are spurring the development of smart phones and personal digital assistants …

Proxy caching of large multimedia objects on the edge of the Internet has become
increasingly important for reducing network latency. For a large media object, such as a two …

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 …

This chapter describes the design for High-performance Data Recording Architecture
(HYDRA). Presently, digital continuous media (CM) are well established as an integral part …