Web caching is an important technique to scale the Internet. One important performance
factor of Web caches is the replacement strategy. Due to specific characteristics of the World …

Due to the explosive growth of the Internet and increasing demand for multimedia
information on the Web, streaming video over the Internet has received tremendous …

The transmission of real-time streams over best effort networks has been an interesting
research area for over a decade. An important objective of the research community has …

Preferably, the purge server is designed to purge requests together and send them to the
staging server (s) when it is determined that the system can process these requests without …

We survey advances in theories and models for Internet quality of service (QoS). We start
with the theory of network calculus, which lays the foundation for support of deterministic …

Until today, the explicit specification of" software contracts" by means of class invariants and
method pre-and post-conditions was only available to Eiffel developers. iContract is the first …

With the wide availability of high-speed network access, we are experiencing high quality
streaming media delivery over the Internet. The emergence of ubiquitous computing enables …

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 …

Recently, there are many research interests in providing efficient and scalable multimedia
distribution service. However, stringent quality-of-service (QoS) requirements for media …

In this paper, the performance of TCP-friendly generic AIMD (Additive Increase and
Multiplicative Decrease) algorithms for Web-based playback and multirate multimedia …