21 Result(s)
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Chapter and Conference Paper
MCOM-Live: A Multi-Codec Optimization Model at the Edge for Live Streaming
HTTP Adaptive Streaming (HAS) is the predominant technique to deliver video contents across the Internet with the increasing demand of its applications. With the evolution of videos to deliver more immersive expe...
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ECAS-ML: Edge Computing Assisted Adaptation Scheme with Machine Learning for HTTP Adaptive Streaming
As the video streaming traffic in mobile networks is increasing, improving the content delivery process becomes crucial, e.g., by utilizing edge computing support. At an edge node, we can deploy adaptive bitra...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Communication and Coordination for Drone Networks
Small drones are being utilized in monitoring, delivery of goods, public safety, and disaster management among other civil applications. Due to their sizes, capabilities, payload limitations, and limited fligh...
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Rule-based Stream Reasoning for Intelligent Administration of Content-Centric Networks
Content-Centric Networking (CCN) research addresses the mismatch between the modern usage of the Internet and its outdated architecture. Importantly, CCN routers use various caching strategies to locally cache co...
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Combined Mobile Ad-Hoc and Delay/Disruption-Tolerant Routing
The main assumption of many routing protocols for wireless mobile ad-hoc networks (MANETs) is that end-to-end paths exist in the network. In practice, situations exist where networks get partitioned and tradit...
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Scalable Video Coding Impact on Networks
This paper describes the CELTIC project on ”Scalable Video Coding Impact on Networks” with the focus of designing a streaming system based on the Scalable Video Coding extension of the H.264/AVC standard. The ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Metadata-Based Content Management and Sharing System for Improved User Experience
In the past years the amount of multimedia content on the Internet or in home networks has been drastically increasing. Instead of buying traditional media (such as CDs or DVDs) users tend to buy online media....
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Enhancing the User Experience with the Sensory Effect Media Player and AmbientLib
Multimedia content is increasingly used in every area of our life. Still, each type of content only stimulates the visual and/or the hearing system. Thus, the user experience depends only on those two stimuli....
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Efficient SVC-to-AVC Conversion at a Media Aware Network Element
H.264/SVC, the Scalable Video Coding extension of the H.264/AVC video coding standard, features spatial, quality and temporal scalability. Backwards compatibility with legacy decoding devices is maintained thr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Natural-Language-Based Conversion of Images to Mobile Multimedia Experiences
We describe an approach for viewing any large, detail-rich picture on a small display by generating a video from the image, as taken by a virtual camera moving across it at varying distance. Our main innovatio...
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An Evaluation of Mobile End Devices in Multimedia Streaming Scenarios
This paper compares handhelds based on the iPhone and Android operating systems in multimedia streaming scenarios. We simulate typical Internet network impairments, i.e. packet delay and packet loss, and evalu...
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Information and Communication Systems for Mobile Emergency Response
This discussion paper attempts to propose emergency response and disaster management as worthwhile areas of applied research for the information system community. The typical requirements, entities and activit...
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An Extensible Framework for Knowledge-Based Multimedia Adaptation
Multimedia content is becoming increasingly important in many areas not only for pure entertainment but also for commercial or educational purposes like, e.g., distance learning or online training. In parallel...
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Toward Semantic Web Services for Multimedia Adaptation
Universal Multimedia Access (UMA), where users can consume any multimedia resource anywhere at any time, is the driving vision of ongoing ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) stand...
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Topic 14 Routing and Communication in Interconnection Networks
Communication networks, protocols, and application programming interfaces (APIs) are crucial factors for the performance of parallel and distributed computations. This topic of Euro-Par 2003 is therefore devot...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A common messaging layer for MPI and PVM over SCI
This paper describes the design of a common message passing layer for implementing both MPI and PVM over the SCI interconnect in a workstation or PC cluster. The design is focused at obtaining low latency. The...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Systematic Assessment of Computer Systems Architectures
Development, selection, and evolution of workstation architectures depend mainly on a comprehensive assessment of the architecture and its parts. Proper assessment of an architecture is a key to its success on...
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Randomized shared memory—Concept and efficiency of a scalable shared memory scheme
Our work explores the practical relevance of Randomized Shared Memory (RSM), a theoretical concept that has been proven to enable an (asymptotically) optimally efficient implementation of scalable and universa...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
On the practical efficiency of Randomized Shared Memory
This paper analyzes the efficiency of Randomized Shared Memory (RSM) in terms of constant factors. RSM or memory hashing, that is, pseudorandom distribution of global memory addresses throughout local memories...
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Virtually Shared Memory Architectures for Scalable Universal Parallel Computers
Recent results in theoretical computer science confirm that highly parallel, general-purpose shared-memory computers can in principle be built. These results are established by studying emulations of an ideali...
