Peer-to-Peer (P2P) approaches are gaining increasing popularity for video streaming applications due to their potential for Internetlevel scalability. P2P VoD (Video On-Demand) applications pose more technical challenges than P2P live streaming since the peers are less synchronized over time as the playing position varies widely across the total video length along with the requirement to suppor...

introduction: laryngeal dysfunction may be divided into three categories; organic, neurologic and functional disorders. dysphonia and hoarseness are the most common symptoms and, in some cases, the only signs of laryngeal dysfunction. in differential diagnosis of any type of chronic hoarseness, a neoplastic process must be considered and, thus continuous light video laryngoscopy can provide imp...

The hookah pipe is an ancient tool for smoking tobacco and is a growing public health concern at the global level. YouTube is a website that allows its members to post videos for people to watch and to share comments about the videos in an online forum. The purpose of the study was to investigate the types of videos about hookah on YouTube, their popularity, and the demographics of those who po...

Understanding the dynamics of on-line content popularity is an active research field with application in sectors as diverse as media advertising, content replication and caching and on-line marketing. In most cases, scientists have focused on user-generated contents, which are freely accessible through different on-line services. Among such services, the incumbent one is indeed YouTube. This on...

Today, YouTube is the largest user-driven video content provider in the world; it has become a major platform for disseminating multimedia information. A major contribution to its success comes from the user-touser social experience that differentiates it from traditional content broadcasters. This work examines the social network aspect of YouTube by measuring the fullscale YouTube subscriptio...

User Generated Content has become very popular since the birth of web services such as YouTube allowing the distribution of such user-produced media content in an easy manner. YouTube-like services are different from existing traditional VoD services because the service provider has only limited control over the creation of new content. We analyze how the content distribution in YouTube is real...

Multi-media is more and more popular in all levels of education for its vivid picture and video. Due to the increasing number of videos and pictures in school server, how terminal computers in classrooms access multimedia at low cost is an important problem to solve. A novel dynamic scheduling algorithm of PCASGP (Proxy caching algorithm based on segment group popularity for streaming media). B...

Executive Summary The desire for increased security has catapulted the popularity of video surveillance systems, which are now widely deployed in places such as airports, banks, public transportation centers and even private homes. The many problems associated with traditional analog-based systems are influencing the push for digital-based systems. Furthermore, with the growing popularity of co...

Media content distribution systems make extensive use of computational resources, such as disk and network bandwidth. The use of these resources is proportional to the relative popularity of the objects and their level of replication over time. Therefore, understanding request popularity over time can inform system design decisions. As well, advertisers can target popular objects to maximize th...