The authors examine the transport and storage of video compressed with a variable bit rate
(VBR). They focus primarily on networked video, although they also briefly consider other …

With modern communication networks continuing to grow in traffic, size, complexity, and
variety, control systems are critical to ensure quality and effectively manage network traffic …

Due to the increasing deployment of conversational real-time applications like VoIP and
videoconferencing, the Internet is today facing new challenges. Low end-to-end delay is a …

(57) ABSTRACT A System and method are provided for analyzing and trans mitting Video
over a Switched network. According to an aspect of the invention, two phases are generally …

Layered transmission of data is often recommended as a solution to the problem of varying
bandwidth constraints in multicast video applications. Multilayered encoding, however, is not …

5,768,533. A 6/1998 Ran 2007/0091816 A1 4, 2007 Lee et al. 5,790,538 A 8/1998 Sugar
2007/O121706 A1 5/2007 Nakamura et al. 5,802,068 A 9/1998 Kudo 2007/02O1406 A1 8 …

Heyman (1992) examined three sequences giving the number of cells per frame of a VBR
encoding of videoconferences (talking heads); these sequences were produced by …

Large-scale deployment and successful commercialization of digital video services over
computer networks strongly depend on the cost effectiveness of these services. Network …

Video delivery from a server to a client across a network is an important component of many
multimedia applications. While delivering a video stream across a resource constrained …

This disclosure describes techniques that can facilitate multimedia telephony. In one
example, a method for communication of multimedia data comprises determining a first level …