DocumentCode
3228259
Title
A cooperative distribution protocol for video-on-demand
Author
Pâris, Jehan-François
Author_Institution
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Houston Univ., TX, USA
fYear
2005
fDate
26-30 Sept. 2005
Firstpage
240
Lastpage
246
Abstract
We present a cooperative distribution protocol requiring clients that watch a video to forward it to the next client. As a result, the video server only has to distribute parts of a video that no client can forward. Our protocol works best when clients have sufficient buffer capacity to store each video they are watching until they are done: when this is the case, the instantaneous server bandwidth never exceeds the video consumption rate. In addition, we also show how multicasting can further reduce the server and the network bandwidth requirements of the protocol.
Keywords
bandwidth allocation; buffer storage; client-server systems; multicast communication; protocols; video on demand; video servers; buffer capacity; cooperative distribution protocol; instantaneous server bandwidth; multicasting; network bandwidth; video consumption rate; video server; video-on-demand; Bandwidth; Buffer storage; Computer science; Impedance; Multicast protocols; Network servers; Proposals; Streaming media; Video sharing; Watches;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Computer Science, 2005. ENC 2005. Sixth Mexican International Conference on
ISSN
1550-4069
Print_ISBN
0-7695-2454-0
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ENC.2005.2
Filename
1592225
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