Practical channel transition for near-VOD services

Author

Chien, Wei-De ; Yeh, Yuan-Shiang ; Jia-Shung Wang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Nat. Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

3

fYear

2004

fDate

27-30 June 2004

Firstpage

1843

Abstract

Periodic broadcasting is known as an efficient technique to support near video-on-demand services for delivering popular videos, since it can reduce the bandwidth requirement for transmitting streaming video to simultaneous viewers. The channel transition problem is an issue of concern regarding the variability of the popularity of a video in periodic broadcasting. We present a novel channel transition scheme over the fast broadcasting (FB) scheme. Our proposed scheme has less bandwidth waste than the existing seamless channel transition (SCT) scheme. In addition, no extra service delay and client buffer are needed in our scheme.

Keywords

broadcasting; buffer storage; channel allocation; delays; video on demand; video streaming; bandwidth reduction; bandwidth waste; channel assignments; client buffer; fast broadcasting; near video-on-demand services; near-VOD services; periodic broadcasting; seamless channel transition; service delay; video streaming; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Buffer storage; Computer science; Delay effects; Motion pictures; Multimedia communication; Real time systems; Streaming media; Videos;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2004. ICME '04. 2004 IEEE International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8603-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2004.1394616

Filename

1394616