Scalable delivery and pricing of streaming media with advertisements

Proceedings of the ACM International Multimedia Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 791-794

  Al Hadrusi, Musab ^a   Sarhan, Nabil J ^a  

^a Wayne State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Media streaming; Periodic broadcasting; Pricing; Scheduling; Stream merging

Indexed keywords

MEDIA STREAMING; PERIODIC BROADCASTING; STREAM MERGING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; MARKETING; SCALABILITY; SCHEDULING; TELEVISION BROADCASTING;

VIDEO STREAMING;

EID: 37849036259     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1291233.1291412     Document Type: Conference Paper

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