Social media platforms have democratized the process of web content creation allowing
mere consumers to become creators and distributors of content. But this has also contributed …

The Internet of vehicles (IoV) is a large information interaction network that collects
information on vehicles, roads and pedestrians. One of the important uses of vehicle …

Popular online video-on-demand (VoD) services all maintain a large catalog of videos for
their users to access. The knowledge of video popularity is very important for system …

This paper develops a framework for studying the popularity dynamics of user-generated
videos, presents a characterization of the popularity dynamics, and proposes a model that …

With the advancements in user-generated content sites, their prominence for multimedia
information dissemination is increasing on a rapid scale. An information about which content …

Video popularity (measured by view count) over time is an essential reference for both
online video providers and users. According to state-of-the-art works, video popularity is …

Vehicular networks are expected to support diverse content applications with multi-
dimensional quality of service (QoS) requirements, which cannot be realized by the …

Zuallererst gilt mein Dank meinem Doktorvater Hans-Bernd Brosius, der mich zu dieser
Doktorarbeit und der Arbeit als wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter nicht nur anfänglich ermutigt …

Today increasingly large volumes of TV and video are distributed over IP-networks and over
the Internet. It is therefore essential for traffic and cache management to understand TV …

In recent years, telecom operators have been moving away from traditional broadcast-driven
television, towards IP-based interactive and on-demand multimedia services. Consequently …