Title

An efficient periodic broadcast technique for digital video libraries

Authors

Authors

K. A. Hua;S. Sheu

Abbreviated Journal Title

Multimed. Tools Appl.

Keywords

digital library; scheduling; network communication; cache; network I/O; DEMAND SERVICE; SYSTEMS; SERVER; Computer Science, Information Systems; Computer Science, Software; Engineering; Computer Science, Theory & Methods; Engineering, Electrical; & Electronic

Abstract

We investigate a novel multicast technique, called Skyscraper Broadcasting (SB), for digital-video-library applications. We discuss the data fragmentation technique, the broadcasting strategy, and the client design. We also show the correctness of our technique, and derive mathematical equations to analyze its storage requirement. To assess its performance, we compare it to the latest designs known as Pyramid Broadcasting (PB) and Permutation-Based Pyramid Broadcasting (PPB). Our study indicates that PB offers excellent access latency. However, it requires very large storage space and disk bandwidth at the receiving end. PPB is able to address these problems. However, this is accomplished at the expense of longer access latency and more complex synchronization. With SB, we are able to achieve the low latency of PB while using only 20% of the buffer space required by PPB.

Journal Title

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volume

10

Issue/Number

2-3

Publication Date

1-1-2000

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

157

Last Page

177

WOS Identifier

WOS:000085803500004

ISSN

1380-7501

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