Competitive on-line stream merging algorithms for media-on-demand

Journal of Algorithms

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 59-90

  Bar Noy, Amotz ^a,c   Ladner, Richard E ^b,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b University of Washington   (United States)

^c AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Competitive analysis; On line algorithms; Stream merging; Video on demand

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; BUFFER STORAGE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; SERVERS; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

STREAM MERGING;

VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EID: 0041928196     PISSN: 01966774     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-6774(03)00045-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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