Real-time multimedia applications over the Intemet have posed a lot of challenges due to the lack of quality of service (QoS) guarantees, frequent fluctuations in channel bandwidth, and'packet losses. To address these issues, a great deal of research has been done in both video coding and video transmission fields. In this paper we present a Logarithm-based. TCP-Friendly Rate Control (L-TFRC) m...

Peer-to-Peer networks have gained a lot of popularity in the past few years. Each participant offers own resources and occupies resources of other peers. This paper proposes an architecture for a P2P streaming network that considers structured data placement strategies of replicated multimedia content and QoS routing (RSVP). We consider point to point streaming within an autonomous system. So c...

Together with the wide spread of network devices with broadband access, streaming has become more and more popular as the favorite mechanism for broadcasting real-time events to a large number of users. The traditional approaches to live streaming include IP multicast and client-server based streaming. Of them, IP multicast is not globally deployed while client-server streaming implies expensiv...

Practical implementation of new P2P streaming systems requires a lot of coding and is often tedious and costly, slowing down the technology transfer from the research community to real users. GRAPES aims at relieving this burden, and speed-up application development, by providing a set of open-source components conceived as basic building blocks for building new P2P streaming applications. GRAP...

Lot-streaming is the process of splitting a job (lot) into a number of smaller sublots so that successive operations can be overlapped in a multi-stage production system. This paper presents a procedure for minimizing the mean weighted absolute deviation from due dates when jobs are scheduled in a lot-streaming #ow shop. This performance criterion has been shown to be non-regular and requires a...