Optimal Proxy Cache Allocation for Efficient Streaming Media Distribution

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 366-374

  Wang, Bing ^a   Sen, Subhabrata ^b   Adler, Micah ^a   Towsley, Don ^a  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer networks; Multimedia communication; Multimedia streaming; Prefix caching; Proxy caching; Streaming media distribution

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BROADCASTING; CACHE MEMORY; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MULTICASTING; SERVERS; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

MULTIMEDIA STREAMING; PREFIX CACHING; PROXY CACHING; STREAMING MEDIA DISTRIBUTION;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 1942468812     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2003.822788     Document Type: Article

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