Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2006. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xvii, 83 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-83).

published_or_final_version / Computer Science / Doctoral / Doctor of Philosophy

by Siu Wah Lau. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 146-153). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 123-125).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 57-59).

by Xiaoqing Wang. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-45). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgments --- p.ii / Abstract --- p.iii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- The General Architecture of the VoD System and the Related Issues --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- A Brief Description of VoD System --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Why Video Streams in VoD Service are VBR in Nature? --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3 --- The Video Storage Media in the VoD Systems --- p.8 / Chapter 2.4 --- The Data Placement Scheme in the VoD System --- p.9 / Chapter 2.5 --- An Overview of Disk Scheduling in VoD System --- p.10 / Chapter 2.6 --- The Admission Control in VoD System --- p.12 / Chapter 3 --- Our Admission Control Algorithm for VoD System --- p.14 / Chapter 3.1 --- QoS Requirements We Choose --- p.14 / Chapter 3.2 --- System Model --- p.15 / Chapter 3.3 --- The Admission Control for the Storage Sub-system --- p.19 / Chapter 3.4 --- The Admission Control for Network Sub-system --- p.21 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- Preliminaries --- p.22 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- The Admission Control Algorithm for Network Sub-system --- p.27 / Chapter 4 --- Experiment --- p.33 / Chapter 5 --- Conclusion and Future Work --- p.41 / Chapter 5.1 --- Conclusion --- p.41 / Chapter 5.2 --- Future Work --- p.42

Lee Chung Hing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-63). / Abstracts in English and Chinese. / Acknowledgements --- p.ii / Abstract --- p.iii / List of Figures --- p.vii / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Contributions of This Thesis --- p.3 / Chapter 1.2 --- Organizations of This Thesis --- p.3 / Chapter 1.3 --- Publication --- p.4 / Chapter 2. --- Overview of VoD Systems --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- True VoD --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- Near VoD --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Related Works --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Batching --- p.9 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Patching --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Mcache --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Unified VoD --- p.12 / Chapter 2.4 --- Discussions --- p.15 / Chapter 3. --- Super-Scalar Architecture --- p.17 / Chapter 3.1 --- Transmission Scheduling --- p.20 / Chapter 3.2 --- Admission Control --- p.21 / Chapter 3.3 --- Channel Merging --- p.26 / Chapter 3.4 --- Interactive Control --- p.29 / Chapter 4. --- Performance Modeling --- p.31 / Chapter 4.1 --- Waiting Time for Statically-Admitted Clients --- p.32 / Chapter 4.2 --- Waiting Time for Dynamically-Admitted Clients --- p.33 / Chapter 4.3 --- Admission Threshold --- p.38 / Chapter 4.4 --- Channel Partitioning --- p.39 / Chapter 5. --- Performance Evaluation --- p.40 / Chapter 5.1 --- Model Validation --- p.40 / Chapter 5.2 --- Channel Partitioning --- p.42 / Chapter 5.3 --- Latency Comparisons --- p.44 / Chapter 5.4 --- Channel Requirement --- p.46 / Chapter 5.5 --- Performance at Light Loads --- p.47 / Chapter 5.6 --- Multiplexing Gain --- p.49 / Chapter 6. --- Implementation and Benchmarking --- p.51 / Chapter 6.1 --- Implementation Description --- p.51 / Chapter 6.2 --- Benchmarking --- p.53 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Benchmarking Setup --- p.53 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Benchmarking Result --- p.55 / Chapter 7. --- Conclusion --- p.56 / Appendix --- p.57 / Bibliography --- p.61

by Ma Yiguang. / "April 2000." / Thesis (Ph.D.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-[124]). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Mode of access: World Wide Web. / Abstracts in English and Chinese.

by Kelvin Kwok-wai Law. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 66-68). / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgments --- p.iii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Motivation --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Scope --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4 --- Dissertation Outline --- p.4 / Chapter 2 --- Background and Related Researches --- p.6 / Chapter 2.1 --- Interactive Services --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- VOD Architecture --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3 --- Video Compression --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- DCT Based Compression --- p.11 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Subband Video Compression --- p.12 / Chapter 2.4 --- Related Research --- p.14 / Chapter 3 --- Multiple Resolutions Video File System --- p.16 / Chapter 3.1 --- Physical Disk Storage System --- p.16 / Chapter 3.2 --- Multi-resolution Video Data Placement Scheme --- p.17 / Chapter 3.3 --- Example of our Video Block Assignment Algorithm --- p.23 / Chapter 3.4 --- An Assignment Algorithm for Homogeneous Video Files --- p.26 / Chapter 4 --- Disk Scheduling and Admission Control --- p.33 / Chapter 4.1 --- Disk Scheduling Algorithm --- p.33 / Chapter 4.2 --- Admission Control --- p.40 / Chapter 5 --- Load Balancing of the Disk System --- p.43 / Chapter 6 --- Buffer Management --- p.49 / Chapter 6.1 --- Buffer Organization --- p.49 / Chapter 6.2 --- Buffer Requirement For Different Video Playback Mode --- p.51 / Chapter 7 --- Conclusions --- p.63 / Bibliography --- p.66

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 82-89).