Beschreibung:
Nima Sarshar is an Associate Professor of Software Systems Engineering at the University of Regina, Canada. The recipient of best paper awards at IEEE P2P 2004 and SPIE VCIP 2008, his research interests include network communication of multimedia signals, large-scale distributed computing and P2P computing.
An introduction to the theory and techniques for achieving high quality network communication with the best possible bandwidth economy.
1. Introduction; Part I. The Lossless Scenario: 2. Lossless multicast with a single source; 3. Lossless multicast of multiple uncorrelated sources; 4. Lossless multicast of multiple correlated sources; Part II. The Lossy Scenario: 5. Lossy source communication: an approach based on multiple-description codes; 6. Solving the rainbow network flow problem; 7. Continuous rainbow network flow: rainbow network flow with unbounded delay; 8. Practical methods for MDC design; 9. Using progressive codes for lossy source communication; 10. Lossy communication of multiple correlated sources.