State of the art, real-time, rate-adaptive, multimedia applications adjust their transmission rate to match the available network capacity. Unfortunately, this source-based rate-adaptation performs poorly in a heterogeneous multicast environment because there is no single target rate

for such coordination. Directed diffusion is datacentric in that all communication is for named data. All nodes in a directed diffusion-based network are application-aware. This enables diffusion to achieve energy savings by selecting empirically good paths and by caching and processing data in-network (e.g., data

D representation of head and hands in a wide range of viewing conditions. Pfinder has been successfully used in a wide range of applications including wireless interfaces, video databases, and low-bandwidth coding.

The deployment of IP Multicast has fostered the development of a suite of applications, collectively known as the MBone tools, for real-time multimedia conferencingover the Internet. Two of these tools --- nv from Xerox PARC and ivs from INRIA --- provide video transmission using softwarebased

We investigate a novel multicast technique, called Skyscraper Broadcasting (SB), for video-on-demand applications. We discuss the data fragmentation technique, the broadcasting strategy, and the client design. We also show the correctness of our technique, and derive mathematical equations

Abstract — There has been a tremendous increase in demand for real-time video applications over military networks. Multicast provides an efficient solution for simultaneous content delivery to a group of users. It is especially valuable for military applications, as it saves network resources

Multicast (multipoint) distribution of video is an important component of many existing and future networked services. Today's Internet lacks support for quality of service (QoS) assurance which makes the transmission of real-time traffic (such as video) challenging. In addition

has not yet been performed. In this study, we simulate a set of representative wireless ad hoc multicast protocols and evaluate them in various network scenarios. The relative strengths, weaknesses, and applicability of each multicast protocol to diverse situations are studied and discussed.

In this paper, we consider a large population of mobile stations that are interconnected by a multihop wireless network. The applications of this wireless infrastructure range from ad hoc networking (e.g., collaborative, distributed computing) to disaster recovery (e.g., fire, flood, earthquake

The current model for multicast transmission of video over the Internet assumes that a fixed average bandwidth is uniformly present throughout the network. Consequently, sources limit their transmission rates to accommodate the lowest bandwidth links, even though high-bandwidth connectivity might