Title :
Protocol considerations for video prefix-caching proxy in wide area networks
Author :
Lim, Hyotaek ; Du, D.H.C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis, MN, USA
fDate :
3/15/2001 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Internet service providers can improve performance by caching the prefix of video streams at proxies near the requesting clients. An efficient protocol for video prefix-caching proxy is presented. It is shown that the proposed protocol can be used efficiently in TCP splicing
Keywords :
Internet; hypermedia; multimedia communication; transport protocols; video coding; HTTP/1.1; Internet service providers; RTSP; TCP splicing; hierarchical caching; protocol considerations; range request property; requesting clients; video prefix-caching proxy; video streams; wide area networks;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:20010238
