Video-on-demand: experience with protocols and their implementation

Author

Mourad, Magda M. ; Tantawy, Ahmed N.

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

28-30 Aug 1995

Firstpage

446

Lastpage

451

Abstract

This paper summarizes some observations made during our research project aiming at investigating the practical problems encountered during the implementation of interactive multimedia information systems. The prototype deals with digitally compressed information encoded in MPEG-2 formats. We have opted for the use of a set of standard protocols. In this paper we give a brief description and critique of these standard protocols and discuss some aspects related to their implementation. We have specifically focused here on the MPEG-2 Digital Storage Media Command and Control (DSM-CC) protocol

Keywords

information networks; information services; interactive television; interactive video; multimedia communication; transport protocols; video coding; video signal processing; MPEG-2 Digital Storage Media Command and Control protocol; MPEG-2 formats; digitally compressed information; interactive multimedia information systems; standard protocols; video-on-demand; Asynchronous transfer mode; Bandwidth; Command and control systems; Communication system control; Data communication; Information systems; Multimedia systems; Streaming media; Transform coding; Transport protocols;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Computing Systems, 1995., Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Future Trends of

Conference_Location

Cheju Island

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7125-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FTDCS.1995.525016

Filename

525016