Collaboration and Optimization for Multimedia Communications

Collaboration and Optimization for Multimedia Communications

The advances of Internet and wireless access technologies have opened up new opportunities to serve high quality, on-demand multimedia applications. Applications like mobile TV, IPTV, on-demand streaming, and peer-to-peer video sharing have fundamentally changed the content distribution landscape, and have been accelerating a social and engineering revolution in media distribution and consumpti...

Ph.D. Thesis Resources optimization in multimedia communications

vi Foreword University of Cagliari vii Foreword Since my M.Sc. dissertation [SR02], I have focused my research interest in the Information and Communication Technology field, with regard on the communication network resources optimization. While in [SR02] I have analysed a single network component (a multi-service switch), in this Ph.D. dissertation I have enlarged my focus to entire infrastruc...

MPEG and multimedia communications

Digital television is a reality today, but multimedia communications, after years of hype, is still a catchword. Lack of suitable multi-industry standards supporting it is one reason for the unfulfilled promise. The MPEG committee which originated the MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standards that made digital television possible is currently developing MPEG-4 with wide industry participation. This paper des...

Integrating Access and Collaboration for Multimedia Applications

Existing models and systems which integrate multimedia documents and collaborative distributed editing have a major drawback. They do not support media specific types of collaboration and distribution in a satisfactory way. We present a framework model for collaborative multimedia editing in which each media type can use its own type of collaboration and distribution. When used in system design...

Communications and Distributed Systems Support for Multimedia