Collaborative media streaming

Collaborative Media Streaming Services based on Content Networks

Content networks (CNs) are being introduced to extend content distribution networks (CDNs) with content creation, modification, management, and placement mechanisms to support value-added services and modern applications. This paper presents a CN-based architecture supporting collaborative media streaming services which allow a synchronous group of users to select, watch and control a multimedi...

Combining Streaming Media and Collaborative Elements to Support Lifelong Learning

This chapter presents the educational value of streaming media combined with asynchronous collaborative learning and describes the particular characteristics and the limitations of the supporting Asynchronous Multimedia Collaborative Systems (AMCL). Then CELSIA, an innovative AMCL system, is described as an example of new trends in AMCL systems that come to address the limitations of the curren...

Analysis of Streaming Media Systems Analysis of Streaming Media Systems

Streaming-Media Knowledge Discovery

T he proliferation of powerful Web-based search engines that efficiently index and search large document collections has made it easier for the casual user to search and browse text documents on the Web. Although several portals provide comprehensive text information, we have yet to see a similarly comprehensive resource list for locating relevant information in streaming media, whether via sea...

Streaming Media Caching

Streaming media has contributed to a significant amount of today’s Internet traffic. Like conventional web objects (e.g., HTML pages and images), media objects can benefit from proxy caching; yet their unique features such as huge size and high bandwidth demand imply that conventional proxy caching strategies have to be substantially revised. This chapter discusses the critical issues and chall...