Cooperative Transmission Strategy for Video-on-Demand System

Author

Ho, K.-M. ; Lo, K.T. ; Feng, J.

Author_Institution

Hong Kong Polytech. Univ. Hung Horn, Hong Kong

fYear

2008

fDate

23-25 Jan. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

5

Abstract

Skyscraper broadcast (SB) is one of the effective ways to provide a scalable solution for video-on-demand (VoD) services. Originally, SB was only designed for supporting a near-VoD service to clients. In this paper, we propose a new transmission scheme called skyscraper-based peer-to-peer broadcasting (SPB) to realize a true-VoD service in SB. It is accomplished by shifting the duty of the first segment transmission to the clients in peer-to-peer (P2P) manner. It is found from the results that the proposed scheme is superior to the existing strategies that the transmission cost of the system and that of the central server can be reduced up to 7% and 30% respectively.

Keywords

broadcasting; peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication services; video on demand; cooperative transmission strategy; skyscraper-based peer-to-peer broadcasting; video-on-demand services; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Buildings; Delay; Large-scale systems; Multimedia communication; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Unicast; Video sharing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Networking, 2008. ICOIN 2008. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Busan

ISSN

1976-7684

Print_ISBN

978-89-960761-1-7

Electronic_ISBN

1976-7684

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICOIN.2008.4472803

Filename

4472803