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Improved support for streaming services in vehicular networks
2004
This paper presents a resource management mechanism aimed at improving the effectiveness of streaming services in vehicular networks. The scenario considered in this paper is that of a group of customers located into a same public vehicle, e.g. a moving train connected to the network via a satellite link, and requesting either video-on-demand-like services, as well as real-time diffusive (broadcast) streaming services. We show that a proxy server, devised to introduce an elastic buffer aimed at decoupling the information retrieval download speed on the outer network from the natural play-out speed used in the vehicular network, results to be an extremely effective approach in reducing the o…
Integrated multimedia publishing: combining TV and newspaper content on personal channels
1999
Abstract Fast networks enable the delivery of TV and newspaper content over an Internet connection. This enables new types of integrated publications that include features from both media. The IMU system, described in this paper, automatically integrates newspaper and TV content into a continuously updated World Wide Web-multimedia publication. An active proxy server pursues the integration and delivers the publication through an ATM fibre link to fast networks, such as the bi-directional cable TV network and the ADSL telephone network, providing near-TV quality. The users read the IMU publication from the Internet on their PCs with normal World Wide Web-browsers. You can also watch the pub…