Title

BroadCatch: A periodic broadcast technique for heterogeneous video-on-demand

Authors

Authors

M. A. Tantaoui; K. A. Hua;T. T. Do

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

IEEE Trans. Broadcast.

Keywords

broadcast channels; broadcasting; interactive TV; multicast channels; multimedia communication; multimedia systems; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic; Telecommunications

Abstract

Many essential multimedia applications rely on video-on-demand technology to deliver a video to different users. A number of periodic broadcast techniques have been proposed for the cost-effective implementation of such systems. Most of these techniques would either try to minimize the server bandwidth, user bandwidth, user storage, user access latency to the video, or a combination of some of the aforementioned parameters. On the other hand, the implementation strategies of these broadcast schemes would necessitate a minimum bandwidth requirement for all users. Multi-resolution techniques address the heterogeneity problem by sacrificing user video quality. In this paper, we consider a different approach that does not possess this disadvantage. Using an incremental channel design at the server side, and a specific broadcast schedule, users can choose among a range of bandwidths to use to download the video at the cost of their access latency and not to the video quality. We prove the correctness of the proposed solution; provide mathematical analysis to demonstrate its heterogeneous behavior, and present performance studies to illustrate its efficiency.

Journal Title

Ieee Transactions on Broadcasting

Volume

50

Issue/Number

3

Publication Date

1-1-2004

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

289

Last Page

301

WOS Identifier

WOS:000224105300008

ISSN

0018-9316

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