Video Session

Video-on-Demand Session Management

A Video-on-Demand (VoD) system provides a service which enables a user of the system to request in real time the transmission of live video from a collection of available video material. A VoD system is probably one of the most complex services to be provided over BISDN networks. Such a system consists of several independent service gateways and video servers with which the user Set-Top Box nee...

Seamless Video Session Handoff between WLANs

Handoff in a distributed IEEE 802.11 Wireless LAN network is a source of significant amount of problems on the video transmission environment. The visual quality of video streaming applications is lowered when stations are in handoff status. In this paper, we introduce an architecture of a session proxy (SP), which tries to preserve the quality of the streaming video upon each handoff between a...

Sessamo: Session Mobility for Video Streaming Applications

Nowadays, telecom operators are making a remarkable progress in providing a wide offer of broadband access to answer the high demand for high bit rate applications. Nevertheless, user requirements do not stop at providing high rate connection, but exceeds it to ensuring transparent service portability among his equipments. The user would like to choose among his devices those which respond at b...

Special Session: Second Workshop on Face Processing in Video

Session 4: Approaches in Primary THA: Video Vignettes