End-to-end communication is the problem of sending a sequence of messages from one processor , the sender, to another processor, the receiver, through an unreliable communication network. This paper surveys positive and negative results concerning deterministic protocols for end-to-end communication in asynchronous networks and presents open questions.

The goal of this study is to investigate the reconstruction of three-dimensional (3-D) graphical models of real objects in a controlled imaging environment and present the work done in our group based on silhouette-based reconstruction. Although many parts of the whole system have been well-known in the literature and in practice, the main contribution of the paper is that it describes a comple...

One of the major problems in networked multimedia is the playout synchronization of continuous media streams. The sink of a set of transmitted media streams has to reestablish the presentation timing of samples within each stream (intra-stream synchronization) and among streams (inter-stream synchronization). In applications that include live human-to-human conversation there is the additional ...

The explosive growth of the Internet has induced a need for developing tools to understand the composition and dynamics of the Internet traffic. Measurements of the various characteristics of a network provide insight into the state and performance of the network. The end-to-end available bandwidth metric can be used by various applications for various purposes like path selection, dynamic rout...

Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract The end-to-end principle is the core architectural guideline of the Internet. In this document, we briefly examine the development of the end-to-end principle as it has been applied to the Internet architecture over...

In this paper, a new mechanism for available bandwidth estimation is proposed to improve the estimation accuracy compared with the existing IGI(Initial Gap Increasing)/PTR(Packet Transmission Rate) mechanism. The proposed mechanism defines three cases of the difference between the average output gap and the input gap, and then reflects fully them, while the existing mechanism reflected only two...

In this paper, we present the design strategies of a clientserver distributed multimedia presentation system that can flexibly support streaming continuous media data, in realtime, across Internet. In particular, we focus on the real-time buffer management and end-to-end data transmission. We present an effective and practical buffer management technique to address network delays and misorderin...

Loss Differentiation Algorithms (LDA) are currently used to determine the cause of packet losses with an aim of improving TCP performance over wireless networks. In this work, we propose a cross-layer solution based on two LDA in order to classify the loss origin on an 802.11 link and then to react consequently. The first LDA scheme, acting at the MAC layer, allows differentiating losses due to...