Scheduling algorithms for the broadcast delivery of multimedia products

Author

Vinay, V. ; Ramamritham, Krithi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Indian Inst. of Technol., Bombay, India

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

200

Lastpage

207

Abstract

Free bandwidth in television channels which is available in the form of the vertical blanking interval (VBI) is currently being utilized to broadcast programme information, HTML pages and closed captioning. This bandwidth can be used to broadcast data and also products like video clips, software, multimedia packages, etc. thereby satisfying several customers with a single transmission at very high speeds. We present several heuristic algorithms that attempt to maximize the revenue earned by an e-commerce merchant providing such a service. These algorithms are tailored to deal with different customer service policies

Keywords

electronic commerce; multimedia systems; scheduling; television broadcasting; HTML page broadcasting; closed captioning broadcasting; customer service policies; e-commerce merchant; free bandwidth; heuristic algorithms; multimedia packages; multimedia product broadcast delivery; programme information broadcasting; scheduling algorithms; software; television channels; vertical blanking interval; video clips; Bandwidth; Blanking; Digital multimedia broadcasting; HTML; Multimedia communication; Multimedia systems; Packaging; Scheduling algorithm; Software packages; TV broadcasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems, 2000. WECWIS 2000. Second International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Milpitas, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0610-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WECWIS.2000.853876

Filename

853876