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 …

In light of the slow deployment of IP Multicast technology on the global Internet and the
explosive popularity of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications, there has been a flurry …

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 …

Video streaming is a major source of Internet traffic today and usage continues to grow at a
rapid rate. To cope with this new and massive source of traffic, ISPs use methods such as …

In general, joint error-control coding and linear precoding techniques are proposed for
fading-resilient transmissions over frequency-at and frequency-selective fading channels …

(57) ABSTRACT A multimedia system and method that provides easy uni versal text
searching for non-technical users, is disclosed. A configuration of the multimedia system and …

Layer encoded video is an elegant way to allow adaptive transmissions in the face of
varying network conditions as well as it supports heterogeneity in networks and clients. As a …

A multimedia system needs a mechanism to communicate with its environment, the Internet,
clients, and applications. MPEG-7 provides a standard metadata format for global …

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 …

Content distribution networks (CDNs) are the most promising new techniques for coping with
the huge and swiftly growing volume of Internet traffic. In essence, CDNs are groups of proxy …