Mobile ad hoc networks without centralized infrastructure change their topology rapidly
because of node mobility, making multimedia applications difficult to run across wireless …

Video-on-demand (VoD) is an essential technology for many multimedia applications.
However, it remains challenging to efficiently deliver on-demand streams to a large number …

With the growing popularity of the Internet, there is an increasing demand to deliver
continuous media (CM) streams over the Internet. However, packets may be damaged or …

Abstract Video-on-demand (VOD) service requires balanced use of system resources, such
as disk bandwidth and buffer, to accommodate more clients. The data retrieval size and data …

In building a large-scale video server, it is highly desirable to use heterogeneous disk-
subsystems for the following reasons. First, existing disks may fail, especially in an …

In the past few years, video streaming has been one of the most prominent applications in
the Internet. There are basically two types of approaches to deliver on-demand video …

Video servers are highly vulnerable to disk failures because they employ large-scale disk
arrays to support many clients and multimedia contents. To cope with such a structural …

In this paper, we address the development of a standardized multimedia tool that can record
desired audio and video as well as the instructor's actions imposed on the knowledge …

In this paper, we address the issue of minimizing the power consumption in retrieving the
continuous media data from the disk drive for real-time playback purpose. Different from the …

Rapid advances in the mobile communications and wireless technology fields in recent
decades have prompted a move away from traditional cable–and optical–based networks …