Title :
Architectural trade-offs for video transport networks
Author :
Colle, Didier ; Das, Goutam ; Pickavet, Mario ; Demeester, Piet
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. Technol. (INTEC), Ghent Univ., Ghent, Belgium
Abstract :
Several architectural aspects and options are discussed for producing video based services: storage and transcoder placement, routing and (staggered) multi-casting, buffering/smoothing and retiming streams, separate handling of I-frames from B-/P-frames and applying optical flow switching.
Keywords :
optical fibre networks; optical switches; telecommunication network routing; video communication; B-frames; I-frames; P-frame; all-optical networks; optical flow switching; transcoder placement; video based services; video transport networks; Buffer storage; Internet; Optical buffering; Peer to peer computing; Streaming media; TV; Telecommunication traffic; Video on demand; Video sharing; Videoconference;
Conference_Titel :
Optical Fiber Communication (OFC), collocated National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, 2010 Conference on (OFC/NFOEC)
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-884-1
