Interactive Video-On-Demand Systems
Interactive Video-On-Demand Systems

Author: T.P. Jimmy To

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 146155635X

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Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies addresses issues in scheduling and management of resources in an interactive continuous-media (e.g., audio and video) server. The book emphasizes dynamic and run-time strategies for resource scheduling and management. Such strategies provide effective tools for supporting interactivity with on-line users who require the system to be responsive in serving their requests, and whose needs and actions vary frequently over time. With an emphasis on responsiveness and transient performance, this book elaborates on dynamic strategies for managing and scheduling resources in Video-on-Demand/Multimedia systems. Unlike previous books, this volume presents an unprecedented detailed analysis of the start-up and departure of streams. It gives a comprehensive evaluation of various techniques as workloads are varied in multiple dimensions (including arrival rate, data rate and length of play). Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies collectively addresses multiple issues including QoS, throughput, responsiveness and efficiency. The solutions discussed in this volume are particularly valuable to practitioners who are building digital library, interactive multimedia and hypermedia servers. Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies is an excellent reference for researchers, practitioners and educators in the field of multimedia systems, and may be used for advanced courses on multimedia systems and Video-on-Demand servers.

Video on Demand Systems
Video on Demand Systems

Author: Shih-Fu Chang

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2007-08-28

Total Pages: 109

ISBN-13: 058528766X

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Video on Demand Systems brings together in one place important contributions and up-to-date research results in this fast moving area. Video on Demand Systems serves as an excellent reference, providing insight into some of the most challenging research issues in the field.

Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video
Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video

Author: Thomas D.C. Little

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 1995-11-30

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9783540606475

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The prevailing orthodoxy according to which all macroeconomic theory should be reducible to microeconomics is criticized. Such a dogma excludes from economics the creation of new knowledge, which - as distinguished from the mere transmission of knowledge in education and training - is a social process not reducible to microeconomics. A mathematical extension of the Lucas theory to allow for the effects of creation of knowledge upon economic development is shown to improve essentially the prediction of business cycle data, when compared with the conventional real business cycle models of Kydland and Prescott, Hansen and Rogerson, and Danthine and Donaldson.

Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking - ISPA 2007 Workshops
Frontiers of High Performance Computing and Networking - ISPA 2007 Workshops

Author: Parimala Thulasiraman

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-08-14

Total Pages: 561

ISBN-13: 3540747664

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This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of seven international workshops held in conjunction with the 5th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications, ISPA 2007, held in Niagara Falls, Canada in August 2007. The 53 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from many high quality submissions. The workshops contribute to enlarging the spectrum of the more general topics treated in the ISPA 2007 main conference.

Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia
Protocols and Systems for Interactive Distributed Multimedia

Author: Fernando Boavida

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2003-08-02

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 3540361669

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Joint International Workshops on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Protocols for Multimedia Systems, IDMS/PROMS 2002, held in Coimbra, Portugal in November 2002.The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 112 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on performance of protocols and applications, mobile multimedia systems, standards and related issues, quality of service, video systems and applications, resource management, and multimedia support.

Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services
Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services

Author: Michel Diaz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2007-07-23

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 3540481095

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The 1999 International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Sys tems and Telecommunication Services (IDMS) in Toulouse is the sixth in a se ries that started in 1992. The previous workshops were held in Stuttgart in 1992, Hamburg in 1994, Berlin in 1996, Darmstadt in 1997, and Oslo in 1998. The area of interest of IDMS ranges from basic system technologies, such as networking and operating system support, to all kinds of teleservices and distributed multimedia applications. Technical solutions for telecommunications and distributed multimedia systems are merging and quality-of-service (QoS) will play a key role in both areas. However, the range from basic system tech nologies to distributed mutlimedia applications and teleservices is still very broad and we have to understand the implications of multimedia applications and their requirements for middleware and networks. We are challenged to develop new and more fitting solutions for all distributed multimedia systems and telecom munication services to meet the requirements of the future information society.

Instrumentation, Measurement, Circuits and Systems
Instrumentation, Measurement, Circuits and Systems

Author: Tianbiao Zhang

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-03-09

Total Pages: 988

ISBN-13: 3642273343

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The volume includes a set of selected papers extended and revised from the 2011 International Conference on Mechanical Engineering and Technology, held on London, UK, November 24-25, 2011. Mechanical engineering technology is the application of physical principles and current technological developments to the creation of useful machinery and operation design. Technologies such as solid models may be used as the basis for finite element analysis (FEA) and / or computational fluid dynamics (CFD) of the design. Through the application of computer-aided manufacturing (CAM), the models may also be used directly by software to create "instructions" for the manufacture of objects represented by the models, through computer numerically controlled (CNC) machining or other automated processes, without the need for intermediate drawings. This volume covers the subject areas of mechanical engineering and technology, and also covers interdisciplinary subject areas of computers, communications, control and automation. We hope that researchers, graduate students and other interested readers benefit scientifically from the book and also find it stimulating in the process.

Wired-Wireless Multimedia Networks and Services Management
Wired-Wireless Multimedia Networks and Services Management

Author: Tom Pfeifer

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-10-15

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 3642049931

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2009, held in Venice, Italy, in October 2009, as part of the 5th International Week on Management of Networks and Services, Manweek 2009. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 5 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on multimedia networks and systems management, multimedia quality, VoIP and vocal applications, and peer-to-peer multimedia networks.

Networking - ICN 2001
Networking - ICN 2001

Author: Pascal Lorenz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2001-06-27

Total Pages: 924

ISBN-13: 3540423036

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This book constitutes, together with its compagnion LNCS 2093,the refereed proceedings of the First International Conference of Networking, ICN 2001, held in Colmar, France, June 2001. The 168 papers presentedn were carefully reviewed and selected from around 300 submissions. The proceedings offers topical sections on third and fourth generation, Internet, traffic control, mobile and wireless IP, differentiated services, GPRS and cellular networks, WDM and optical networks, differentiated and integrated services, wirless ATM multicast, real-time traffic, wireless, routing, traffic modeling and simulation, user applications, mobility management, TCP analysis, QoS, ad hoc networks, security, MPLS, switches, COBRA, mobile agents, ATM networks, voice over IP, active networks, video communiccations, and modelization.