Near video-on-demand systems with combining multicasting and unicasting batching

Author

Chang, Lin Huang ; Lai, Kuen-Chu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Manage., HungKuang Inst. of Technol., Taichung, Taiwan

Volume

1

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

198

Abstract

Multicasting technology has been a practical solution for implementing large scale video-on-demand (VoD) system. The major drawback of true VoD systems is cost due to the dedicated transmission channel for every single customer. The tradeoffs of the near VoD system, however, come to the scheduled multicasting streams and limited video selections. A near VoD architecture combining multicasting and unicasting batching is proposed in this research. The dynamic adjustment of the batching time with virtual community is presented to solve the server loading and bandwidth problem. Our proposed schemes are believed to provide several strategies for the realistic implementation of the VoD system

Keywords

multicast communication; video on demand; VoD system; bandwidth problem; multicasting batching; near VoD architecture; server loading problem; unicasting batching; video-on-demand systems; virtual community; Bandwidth; Commercialization; High-speed networks; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Streaming media; TV; Unicast; Video compression; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

TENCON 2001. Proceedings of IEEE Region 10 International Conference on Electrical and Electronic Technology

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7101-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/TENCON.2001.949579

Filename

949579