Title

Exploiting client bandwidth for more efficient video broadcast

Abstract

Several periodic broadcasting schemes have been shown to be very effective in addressing the bandwidth limitation in multimedia servers. Since this approach allows many users to share a server stream, its bandwidth requirement is independent of the number of users the system is designed to support. Existing broadcasting schemes use two or less download channels at the client end to receive data. We discuss the drawbacks of this approach, and propose a new technique which allows a video session to download data through several client channels. The number of channels which can be used simultaneously is limited only by the communication capability of the client system. We prove the correctness of this client-centric approach, and provide analytical evaluations to show that it has significantly better performance than skyscraper broadcasting technique which has been shown to offer the best performance to date.

Publication Date

1-1-1998

Publication Title

Proceedings - 7th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks, ICCCN 1998

Volume

1998-October

Number of Pages

848-856

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCCN.1998.998852

Socpus ID

21844446040 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/21844446040

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