Channel allocation in true video-on-demand systems

Author

Fonseca, Nelson L S ; Rubinsztejn, Hana K.

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput., State Univ. of Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Volume

3

fYear

2001

fDate

6/23/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1999

Abstract

To reduce the huge bandwidth demand of video-on-demand, techniques based on multicast have been considered for the deployment of such services on a large scale. Interactiveness, a desirable feature of video services, encompasses the capability of performing VCR operations. Whenever a viewer issues a VCR operation, his/her video stream unsynchronizes with the stream of his/her multicast group. This paper introduces an approach to determine the number of video channels needed to support interactiveness. Moreover, the performance of interactive systems with reserved pool of channels for the support of VCR operations, as well systems with batching and piggybacking are analysed

Keywords

bandwidth allocation; channel allocation; multicast communication; synchronisation; video on demand; VCR operations; VoD; bandwidth demand; batching; channel allocation; interactive systems; multicast channels; performance; piggybacking; synchronization; video channels; video-on-demand; Bandwidth; Channel allocation; Convolution; Delay; Lead; Network servers; Queueing analysis; Streaming media; Terminology; Video recording;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2001. GLOBECOM '01. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7206-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2001.965923

Filename

965923