Providing multicast video on demand using native-mode asynchronous transfer mode

Author

Lockwood, J.W. ; Kang, S.M. ; Hossain, A. ; Hiltenbrant, J.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1998

fDate

31 May-3 Jun 1998

Firstpage

53

Abstract

A network video server and client devices have been designed and prototyped that use multicast to deliver Motion-JPEG, MPEG-1, and MPEG-2 video on top of IP, IP-over-ATM and native-mode ATM (AAL5) protocols. The server runs on a workstation-class machine, while the clients have been implemented both as a multi-threaded software entity and as a stand-alone ATM network-attached playback device. Scalability of the video distribution network is obtained by using multicast features of the underlying network. Feedback from the clients and a single video frame retransmission mechanism are used to decrease end-to-end frame loss

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; client-server systems; interactive television; multimedia communication; performance evaluation; transport protocols; IP-over-ATM; MPEG-1; MPEG-2 video; Motion-JPEG; client devices; end-to-end frame loss; multi-threaded software; multicast features; multicast feedback; multicast video; native-mode ATM; native-mode asynchronous transfer mode; network video server; scalability; single video frame retransmission; stand-alone ATM; video client; video distribution network; workstation-class machine; Asynchronous transfer mode; Buffer storage; Displays; Feedback; Multicast protocols; Network servers; Scalability; Video compression; Video on demand; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1998. ISCAS '98. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4455-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1998.698756

Filename

698756