Recent Publications

2002

• J. M. Almeida, D. L. Eager, M. Ferris, and M. K. Vernon, "Provisioning Content Distribution Networks for Streaming Media", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2002, New York, NY, June 2002. (pdf)
  
  
• Y. Zhao, D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Network Bandwidth Requirements for Scalable On-Demand Streaming", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2002, New York, NY, June 2002. (pdf)
  
  
• H. Tan, D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and H. Guo, "Quality of Service Evaluations of Multicast Streaming Protocols", Proc. 2002 ACM SIGMETRICS Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Marina Del Rey, CA, June 2002. (pdf)
  
  
• Y. Zhao, D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Efficient Delivery Techniques for Variable Bit Rate Multimedia", Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002 (MMCN 2002), San Jose, CA, Jan. 2002, pp. 142-155. (pdf)
  
  

2001

• M. Busari and C. L. Williamson, "Simulation Evaluation of a Heterogeneous Web Proxy Caching Hierarchy", Proc. IEEE MASCOTS 2001 , Cincinatti, OH, Aug. 2001, pp. 379-388. (pdf)
  
  
• A. Mahanti, D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and D. Sundaram-Stukel, "Scalable On-Demand Media Streaming with Packet Loss Recovery", Proc. ACM SIGCOMM 2001, San Diego, CA, Aug. 2001, pp. 97-108. (pdf)
  
  
• Q. Wu and C. L. Williamson, "Improving Ensemble-TCP Performance on Asymmetric Networks", Proc. IEEE MASCOTS 2001 , Cincinatti, OH, Aug. 2001, pp. 205-214. (pdf)
  
  
• J. M. Almeida, J. Krueger, D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Analysis of Educational Media Server Workloads", Proc. 11th Int'l. Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video (NOSSDAV 2001), Port Jefferson, NY, June 2001, pp. 21-30. (pdf)
  
  
• D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and J. Zahorjan, "Minimizing Bandwidth Requirements for On-Demand Data Delivery", IEEE Trans. on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 5, Sept./Oct. 2001, pp. 742-757. (An earlier version of this paper appears in Proc. 5th Int'l. Workshop on Multimedia Information Systems (MIS '99), Indian Wells, CA, Oct. 1999.) (pdf)
  
  
• M. Busari and C. L. Williamson, "On the Sensitivity of Web Proxy Cache Performance to Workload Characteristics", Proc. IEEE INFOCOM 2001 , Anchorage, Alaska, April. 2001, pp. 1225-1234. (pdf)
  
  
• J. M. Almeida, D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "A Hybrid Caching Strategy for Streaming Media Files", Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Networking 2001 (MMCN 2001), San Jose, CA, Jan. 2001, pp. 200-212. (pdf)
  
  

2000

• D. L. Eager, M. C. Ferris, and M. K. Vernon, "Optimized Caching in Systems with Heterogeneous Client Populations", Performance Evaluation, Special Issue on Internet Performance Modelling, Vol. 42, No. 2/3, Sept. 2000, pp. 163-185. (pdf)
  
  
• A. Mahanti, D. L. Eager, and C. L. Williamson, "Temporal Locality and its Impact on Web Proxy Cache Performance", Performance Evaluation, Special Issue on Internet Performance Modelling, Vol. 42, No. 2/3, Sept. 2000, pp. 187-203. (pdf)
  
  
• R. Balakrishnan and C. L. Williamson, "A Performance Comparison on Monofractal and Multifractal Traffic Streams", Proc. IEEE MASCOTS 2000, San Francisco, CA, Aug. 2000. (pdf)
  
  
• D. L. Eager, D. J. Sorin, and M. K. Vernon, "AMVA Techniques for High Service Time Variability", Proc. 2000 ACM SIGMETRICS Int'l. Conf. on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems, Santa Clara, CA, June 2000, pp. 217-228. (pdf)
  
  
• A. Mahanti, C. L. Williamson, and D. L. Eager, "Traffic Analysis of a Web Proxy Caching Hierarchy", IEEE Network, Special Issue on Web Performance, Vol. 14, No. 3, May/June 2000, pp. 16-23. (pdf)
  
  
• D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and J. Zahorjan, "Bandwidth Skimming: A Technique for Cost-Effective Video-on-Demand", Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Networking 2000 (MMCN 2000), San Jose, CA, Jan. 2000, pp. 206-215. (pdf)
  
  

1999

• K. W. Froese and R. B. Bunt, "Cache Management for Mobile File Service", The Computer Journal , Vol.42, No.6, 1999, pp. 442-454. (pdf)
  
  
• D. L. Eager, M. K. Vernon, and J. Zahorjan, "Optimal and Efficient Merging Schedules for Video-on-Demand Servers", Proc. 7th ACM Int'l. Multimedia Conf. (ACM Multimedia '99), Orlando, FL, Nov. 1999, pp. 199-202. (pdf)
  
  
• R. B. Bunt, D. L. Eager, G. M. Oster, and C. L. Williamson, "Achieving Load Balance and Effective Caching in Clustered Web Servers", Proc. 4th Int'l. Web Caching Workshop, San Diego, CA, April 1999, pp. 159-169. (pdf)
  
  
• A. Mahanti and C. L. Williamson, "Web Proxy Workload Characterization", Technical Report, Department of Computer Science, University of Saskatchewan, Feb. 1999. (pdf)
  
  
• D. L. Eager, M. C. Ferris, and M. K. Vernon, "Optimized Regional Caching for On-Demand Data Delivery", Proc. IS&T/SPIE Conf. on Multimedia Computing and Networking 1999 (MMCN'99), San Jose, CA, Jan. 1999, pp. 301-316. (pdf)
  
  

1998

• D. L. Eager, and M. K. Vernon, "Dynamic Skyscraper Broadcasts for Video-on-Demand", Proc. 4th Int'l. Workshop on Advances in Multimedia Information Systems (MIS '98), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1508, edited by S. Jajodia, M. T. Ozsu, and A. Dogac, Springer, Istanbul, Sept. 1998, pp. 18-32. (pdf)