Title
Providing interactive functions for staggered multicast near video-on-demand systems
Abstract
We propose a scheme to provide interactive functions through active buffer management at the client side for staggered multicast near VOD systems. The scheme uses client side buffering in a novel fashion that relies on the simultaneous availability of “past”, “present” and “future” parts of a video and lets the client selectively prefetch segments from multicast channels based on the observation of the play point in its local buffer. The contents of the buffer are adjusted in such a way that the relative position of the play point is kept in the middle part of the buffer and a high probability of providing the interactive functions with the contents of the local buffer is achieved. We perform several simulations and find that the active buffer management is an effective method to provide interactive functions in these systems
Year
DOI
Venue
1999
10.1109/MMCS.1999.778617
ICMCS, Vol. 1
Keywords
Field
DocType
active buffer management,providing interactive functions,video servers,staggered multicast,client side buffering,multicast channels,client side,play point,multicast channel,interactive functions,telecommunication channels,vod systems,video-on-demand systems,vod system,simulations,video on demand,interactive function,local buffer,high probability,multimedia communication,multicast communication,probability,effective method,availability,computer networks,multicast,broadcasting
Source-specific multicast,Protocol Independent Multicast,Client-side,Computer science,Xcast,Computer network,Communication channel,Pragmatic General Multicast,Multicast,Instruction prefetch
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
2
0-7695-0253-9
15
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.02
1
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Zongming Fei155772.29
Mostafa H. Ammar26240794.97
Ibrahim Kamel3915.21
Sarit Mukherjee478666.80