We study a new approach to provide an efficient VoD service to a large client population in P2P networks. Previous work has suggested to construct a multicast tree to distribute the video to clients. However, a multicast tree usually requires the central server to perform complex algorithms to add new clients to the tree. In this paper, we show how to simplify the algorithm performed by the ser...

This work describes FSVC (Fully Scalable Video Codec), a scalable video compression system which is able to generate temporal-, spatialand quality-scalable video streams. FSVC is very suitable for video-on-demand applications where a single version of the compressed video sequence is used. A video server can provide video streams to several clients with different visualization and band-width re...

Video conferencing is a visual and audio communications technology dedicated to Smartphones. It is based on the client-server communication model that this requires many limits since using the server. In this paper, we proposed a new communication model without going through the server (client-client), in addition, this model makes video conference used by mobile multimedia phones. Keywords—vid...

We introduce a video distribution architecture where the prefix of the video is delivered on demand by a prefix server while the body of the video is broken in equal length segments and each segment is periodically transmitted by a central server. The combination of open-loop distribution for the video body and closed-loop multicast transmission for the video prefix makes the overall system hig...

When a distributed MPEG player system is transmitting MPEG videos over an open network, like the Internet, the system usually has no control on the network traffic. Thus, it has to look into the dynamic nature of the traffic and to adjust itself in order to provide the quality of service guaranteed to the video transmission. Transmitting multiple video streams and the different levels of qualit...

In this paper, we propose an asynchronous cluster video server architecture, which is quite different from synchronous video server architecture in various aspects such as striping policy, placement policy, and server scheduling algorithm. This architecture has the benefits that the system scales unlimitedly with the number of disks and videos. We discuss the main design issues and compute the ...

With rapid advances in audio and video technologies, more and more content will be encoded and delivered Today, vast amounts of text, images, graphics, animation, and even Java applets are being hosted and delivered by the by means of audio/video in addition to texts and images. WWW. With rapid advances in audio and video technologies, However, conventional Web servers are designed for data mor...

A novel system providing e ective and e cient access to video archives for mobile users communicating over low bandwidth error-prone wireless links is proposed. The developed system has three components: First, the middleware, implemented as mobile proxy server located at the mobile support station, is chosen for the seamless integration of both mobile users and video servers by hiding the spec...

Video sharing has been an increasingly popular application in online social networks (OSNs). However, its sustainable development is severely hindered by the intrinsic limit of the client/server architecture deployed in current OSN video systems, which is not only costly in terms of server bandwidth and storage but also not scalable with the soaring amount of users and video content . The peer-...

In this paper, we describe the design and implementation of an XML-Based Digital Video Library (XDVL) System. The system includes automatic processes from video creation through video delivery, which involves storing, searching, indexing and retrieval of video contents. It also allows users to search for videos based on various kinds of information using a multi-lingual approach. We adopt a mul...