Oscillation-Free Video Adaptation at Application Layer on Server Side and Experiments Using DCCP

Oscillation-Free Video Adaptation at Application Layer on Server Side and Experiments Using DCCP

VAAL, Video Adaptation at Application Layer and Experiments using DCCP

More and more high definition and high quality videos are nowadays stored on Internet but they are not accessible for everybody because high and stable bandwidth is needed to stream them. A lower bitrate encoding is usually chosen but it leads to lower quality too. A solution is to use a TCP-friendly transport protocol and let the application itself choose for each user the bitrate of the video...

Neutrino Oscillation Experiments at Fermilab

Neutrinos are special. They are the only elementary fermions which are neutral, thus they can be their own antiparticles. Their masses (if nonzero) are several orders of magnitude smaller than those of charged leptons or quarks. These two facts may be, in fact, related: with both Dirac and Majorana, masses present, the neutrino mass eigenstates will naturally split, with the light mass eigensta...

Application Layer Protocol for Video-on-Demand

We propose a new scalable application-layer protocol, specifically designed for low-bandwidth, data streaming applications with large receiver sets. This is based upon a control hierarchy of successive hypercubes for the peers and is quite robust to peer and network failures. Dynamic load balancing is also incorporated. We present an analysis showing that it is near optimum in performance and u...

Neutrino Oscillation Experiments at Nuclear Reactors

In this paper I give an overview of the status of neutrino oscillation experiments performed using nuclear reactors as sources of neutrinos. I review the present generation of experiments (Chooz and Palo Verde) with baselines of about 1 km as well as the next generation that will search for oscillations with a baseline of about 100 km. While the present detectors provide essential input towards...