Comprising more than 61,000 servers located across nearly 1,000 networks in 70 countries
worldwide, the Akamai platform delivers hundreds of billions of Internet interactions daily …

Multiple description coding (MDC) is an effective means to combat bursty packet losses in
the Internet and wireless networks. MDC is especially promising for video applications …

Recent work on Internet measurement and overlay networks has shown that redundant
paths are common between pairs of hosts and that one can often achieve better end-to-end …

Enabling video transport over ad hoc networks is more challenging than over other wireless
networks. The wireless links in an ad hoc network are highly error prone and can go down …

In this paper we present a joint sender/receiver optimization algorithm and a seamless rate
adjustment protocol to reduce the total number of packets over different paths in a streaming …

Media streaming over best effort packet networks such as the Internet is quite challenging
because of the dynamic and unpredictable available bandwidth, loss rate, and delay …

Real-time multimedia transport has stringent quality of service requirements, which are
generally not supported by current network architectures. In emerging mobile ad hoc …

The current best-effort Internet cannot readily provide the service guarantees that VoIP
applications often require. Path switching can potentially address this problem without …

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 …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology has been successfully applied in Internet telephony or Voice
over Internet Protocol (VoIP), such as the Skype system, where P2P is used for both …