Elan Amir

Toward a Common Infrastructure for (2008)

Elan Amir, Yatin Chawathe, Alan Coopersmith, Ketan Mayer-patel, Suchitra Raman, ...

Real-time multimedia streams like audio and video are now integral data types in modern programming environments. Although a great deal of research has investigated effective and efficient...

ABSTRACT An Application Level Video Gateway (2008)

Elan Amir, Hui Zhang

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...

Toward a Common Infrastructure for (2008)

Elan Amir, Yatin Chawathe, Alan Coopersmith, Ketan Mayer-patel, Suchitra Raman, ...

Real-time multimedia streams like audio and video are now integral data types in modern programming environments. Although a great deal of research has investigated effective and efficient...

1 DRAFT submitted for publication — do not distribute A Network Architecture for Heterogeneous Mobile Computing (2008)

Eric A. Brewer, Y H. Katz, Elan Amir, Hari Balakrishnan, Yatin Chawathe, O Fox, ...

This paper summarizes the results of the BARWAN project, which focused on enabling truly useful mobile networking across an extremely wide variety of real-world networks and mobile devices. We...

Toward a Common Infrastructure for (2007)

Elan Amir, Yatin Chawathe, Alan Coopersmith, Ketan Mayer-patel, Suchitra Raman, ...

Real-time multimedia streams like audio and video are now integral data types in modern programming environments. Although a great deal of research has investigated effective and efficient...

1 Adapting to Network and Client Variability via On-Demand Dynamic Distillation (2007)

Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, Elan Amir

The explosive growth of the Internet and the proliferation of smart cellular phones and handheld wireless devices is widening an already large gap between Internet clients. Clients vary in their...

An agent-based approach to real-time multlimedia transmission over heterogeneous environments / (1998)

Amir, Elan.

Thesis (Ph. D. in Computer Science)--University of California, Berkeley, May 1998.

An Active Service Infrastructure for Real-time Conferencing (1998)

Yatin Chawathe, Angela Schuett, Elan Amir, Steve Fink, Todd Hodes, Andrew Huang, ...

Introduction First-generation collaboration tools have been widely used on the MBone for several years. However, several barriers to highly effective collaboration remain, e.g. the lack of support...

A Network Architecture for Heterogeneous Mobile Computing (1998)

Eric Brewer Randy, Eric A. Brewer, Y H. Katz, Elan Amir, Hari Balakrishnan, Yatin Chawathe, ...

This paper summarizes the results of the BARWAN project, which focused on enabling truly useful mobile networking across an extremely wide variety of real-world networks and mobile devices. We...

An Active Service Framework and its Application to Real-time Multimedia Transcoding (1998)

Elan Amir, Steven Mccanne, Randy Katz, Y Katz

Several recent proposals for an "active networks" architecture advocate the placement of user-defined computation within the network as a key mechanism to enable a wide range of new...

An Agent-based Approach to Real-time Multimedia Transmission over Heterogeneous Environments (1998)

Elan Amir

An enduring trait of the Internet is its heterogeneity. Evidence of this heterogeneity includes the wide range of network transmission rates, varying across many orders of magnitude, and the vast...

An Agent-based Approach to Real-time Multimedia Transmission over Heterogeneous Environments (1998)

Elan Amir, Elan Amir, Elan Amir

An Agent-based Approach to Real-time Multimedia Transmission over Heterogeneous Environments by Elan Amir Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science University of California at Berkeley Professor Randy...

A Network Architecture for Heterogeneous Mobile Computing (1998)

Eric A. Brewer, Y H. Katz, Elan Amir, Hari Balakrishnan, Yatin Chawathe, O Fox, ...

This paper summarizes the results of the BARWAN project, which focused on enabling truly useful mobile networking across an extremely wide variety of real-world networks and mobile devices. We...

TCP Improvements for Heterogeneous Networks: The Daedalus Approach (1997)

Hari Balakrishnan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Srinivasan Seshan, Mark Stemm, Elan Amir, Y H. Katz

In this paper, we present a summary of the research work done by the Daedalus group at the University of California at Berkeley to improve TCP performance in a variety of situations, including lossy...

Toward a Common Infrastructure for Multimedia-Networking Middleware (1997)

Steven McCanne, Elan Amir, Yatin Chawathe, Alan Coopersmith, Ketan Mayer-patel, Suchitra Raman, ...

Real-time multimedia streams like audio and video are now integral data types in modern programming environments. Although a great deal of research has investigated effective and efficient...

Receiver-driven Bandwidth Adaptation for Light-weight Sessions (1997)

Elan Amir, Steven Mccanne, Y Katz

Current Internet multicast conferencing tools treat all sources with equal importance in that they either statically allocate a fixed bandwidth to each source in a session, or they automatically...

Receiver-driven Bandwidth Adaptation for Light-weight Sessions (1997)

Elan Amir, Steven Mccanne, Y Katz

Current Internet multicast conferencing tools treat all sources with equal importance in that they either statically allocate a fixed bandwidth to each source in a session, or they automatically...

Adapting to Network and Client Variability via On-Demand Dynamic Distillation (1996)

Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, Elan Amir

The explosive growth of the Internet and the proliferation of smart cellular phones and handheld wireless devices is widening an already large gap between Internet clients. Clients vary in their...

The bay area research wireless access network (barwan (1996)

Y H. Katz, Eric A. Brewer, Elan Amir, Hari Balakrishnan, O Fox, Steve Gribble, ...

Wireless data services have thus far been more promising than successful. We believe that future mobile information systems must be built upon heterogeneous wireless overlay networks', extending...

A layered DCT coder for Internet video (1996)

Elan Amir, Steven Mccanne, Martin Vetterli

Several compressionschemesfor Internet video utilize block-based conditional replenishment (CR) where block updates are coded independently of the past. In the current Internet video tools, blocks...

Adapting to Network and Client Variability via On-Demand Dynamic Distillation (1996)

Armando Fox Steven, Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, Elan Amir

this paper we introduce some design principles that we believe are fundamental to providing "meaningful " Internet access for the entire range of clients. In particular, we show how to...

Adapting to Network and Client Variability via On-Demand Dynamic Distillation (1996)

Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, Elan Amir

this paper we introduce some design principles that we believe are fundamental to providing "meaningful " Internet access for the entire range of clients. In particular, we show how to...

Adapting to Network and Client Variability via On-Demand Dynamic Distillation (1996)

Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, Elan Amir

this paper we introduce some design principles that we believe are fundamental to providing "meaningful " Internet access for the entire range of clients. In particular, we show how to...

A low-power, lightweight unit to provide ubiquitous information access applications and network support for Infopad (1996)

Shankar Narayanaswamy, Srinivasan Seshan, Elan Amir, Yuan-chi Chang, O Fox, ...

of the most important recent trends in computer systems are the emerging use of multimedia Internet services, the popularity of portable computing, and the development of wireless data...

Adapting to Network and Client Variability via On-Demand Dynamic Distillation (1996)

Armando Fox, Steven D. Gribble, Eric A. Brewer, Elan Amir

The explosive growth of the Internet and the proliferation of smart cellular phones and handheld wireless devices is widening an already large gap between Internet clients. Clients vary in their...

An Application Level Video Gateway (1995)

Elan Amir, Steven Mccanne, Hui Zhang

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...

An Application Level Video Gateway (1995)

Elan Amir, Steven Mccanne, Hui Zhang

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...

Improving TCP/IP Performance over Wireless Networks (1995)

Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, Elan Amir, Y H. Katz

This paper won the best student paper award. TCP is a reliable transport protocol tuned to perform well in traditional networks made up of links with low bit-error rates. Networks with higher...

Efficient TCP over networks with wireless links (1995)

Elan Amir, Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, Y H. Katz

TCP is a reliable transport protocol tuned to perform well in traditional networks made up of wired links with stationary hosts. Networks with wireless links and mobile hosts violate many of the...

Efficient TCP over networks with wireless links (1995)

Elan Amir, Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, Y H. Katz

TCP is a reliable transport protocol tuned to perform well in traditional networks made up of wired links with stationary hosts. Networks with wireless links and mobile hosts violate many of the...

Improving TCP/IP performance over wireless networks (1995)

Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, Elan Amir, Y H. Katz

TCP is a reliable transport protocol tuned to perform well in traditional networks made up of links with low bit-error rates. Networks with higher bit-error rates, such as those with wireless links...

Efficient TCP over Networks with Wireless Links

Elan Amir, Hari Balakrishnan, Srinivasan Seshan, Randy H. Katz, Y H. Katz

TCP is a reliable transport protocol tuned to perform well in traditional networks made up of wired links with stationary hosts. Networks with wireless links and mobile hosts violate many of the...