Communications of the ACM
Packet loss effects on MPEG video sent over the public Internet
MULTIMEDIA '98 Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Quality adaptation for congestion controlled video playback over the Internet
Proceedings of the conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Robust compression and transmission of MPEG-4 video
MULTIMEDIA '99 Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Multimedia (Part 1)
Dynamic frame rate control for video streams
MULTIMEDIA '99 Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Multimedia (Part 1)
An efficient bandwidth-sharing technique for true video on demand systems
MULTIMEDIA '99 Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Multimedia (Part 1)
Transmitting MPEG-4 video streams over the Internet: problems and solutions
MULTIMEDIA '99 Proceedings of the seventh ACM international conference on Multimedia (Part 2)
Multithreaded distributed MPEG1-video delivery in the Internet environment
SAC '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM symposium on Applied computing - Volume 2
Scheduling Divisible Loads in Parallel and Distributed Systems
Scheduling Divisible Loads in Parallel and Distributed Systems
Access Time Minimization for Distributed Multimedia Applications
Multimedia Tools and Applications
IEEE Concurrency
Parallel Video Servers: A Tutorial
IEEE MultiMedia
Multimedia Broadcasting over the Internet: Part I
IEEE MultiMedia
MPEG-4: A Multimedia Standard for the Third Millennium, Part 2
IEEE MultiMedia
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Adaptive Video Multicast over the Internet
IEEE MultiMedia
Efficient Movie Retrieval Strategies for Movie-on-Demand Multimedia Services on Distributed Networks
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Efficient Broadcasting Protocols for Video on Demand
MASCOTS '98 Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
Measurement and Modeling of Burst Packet Losses in Internet End-to-End Communications
PRDC '99 Proceedings of the 1999 Pacific Rim International Symposium on Dependable Computing
Suffix Caching Techniques of Streaming Media Based On Batch Patching
ECBS '04 Proceedings of the 11th IEEE International Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer-Based Systems
Resilient Peer-to-Peer Multicast from the Ground Up
NCA '04 Proceedings of the Network Computing and Applications, Third IEEE International Symposium
Advanced Pyramid Broadcasting for Video-on-Demand
ISMSE '04 Proceedings of the IEEE Sixth International Symposium on Multimedia Software Engineering
A GA-based movie-on-demand platform using multiple distributed servers
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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This paper addresses the problem of delivering a long-duration continuous media document, typically a movie, over unreliable communication links like the ones that make up the Internet. Packet loss/drop is one of the main problems that plague Internet's use for offering multimedia services. The framework presented here addresses analytically this problem by offering closed-form solutions for partitioning and scheduling the delivery of a document by multiple spatially distributed servers. The goal is to offer uninterrupted playback to clients while minimizing their access-time. The solid mathematical foundation presented, enables the study of multi-server document delivery using unreliable communications for both CBR and VBR media. It is also shown how slow connections that would otherwise prevent the deployment of Movie-on-Demand class services, could be used to offer such services in an optimal manner. The paper also addresses the problem of optimally arranging the available servers. A rigorous simulation study that explores the potential of the proposed approach concludes the paper. Our simulations show a super-linear speedup in access-times and also the robustness of the proposed scheme, capable of handling unknown network conditions by shifting server ''load''.