Competitive analysis of on-line stream merging algorithms

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 2420, Issue , 2002, Pages 188-200

  Chan, Wun Tat ^a   Lam, Tak Wah ^b   Ting, Hing Fung ^b   Wong, Prudence W H ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MERGING; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

BANDWIDTH REQUIREMENT; COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; ON-LINE ALGORITHMS; STREAM MERGING; TIGHT BOUND; VIDEO-ON-DEMAND SYSTEM; WORST-CASE ANALYSIS;

BANDWIDTH;

EID: 84956991084     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/3-540-45687-2_15     Document Type: Conference Paper

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