The Boltzmann machine is a massively parallel computational model capable of solving a
broad class of combinatorial optimization problems. In recent years, it has been successfully …

With 26 entirely new and 5 extensively revised chapters out of the total of 39, the Mobile
Communications Handbook, Third Edition presents an in-depth and up-to-date overview of …

High latency and loss rates in the Internet make it difficult to stream audio and video without
introducing a large playback delay. To address these problems, we propose a prefix caching …

The authors examine the transport and storage of video compressed with a variable bit rate
(VBR). They focus primarily on networked video, although they also briefly consider other …

Variable-bit-rate (VBR) compressed video can exhibit significant multiple-time-scale bit-rate
variability. In this paper we consider the transmission of stored video from a server to a client …

A dynamic bandwidth allocation strategy to support variable bit rate (VBR) video traffic is
proposed. This strategy predicts the bandwidth requirements for future frames using …

Real-time distribution of stored video over wide-area networks (WANs) is a crucial
component of many emerging distributed multimedia applications. The heterogeneity in the …

Variable bit-rate (VBR) compressed video is known to exhibit significant, multiple-time-scale
rate variability. A number of researchers have considered transmitting stored video from …

In this paper we present a novel network-conscious approach to the problem of end-to-end
video delivery over wide-area networks using proxy servers situated between local-area …

Prefetching has been shown to be an effective technique for reducing user perceived
latency in distributed systems. In this paper we show that even when prefetching adds no …