A Simple Low-Bandwidth Broadcasting Protocol for Video-on-Demand (1999)
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@MISC{Paris99asimple,
author = {Jehan-Francois Paris},
title = {A Simple Low-Bandwidth Broadcasting Protocol for Video-on-Demand},
year = {1999}
}
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Broadcasting protocols can reduce the cost of video-ondemand services by using much less bandwidth to transmit videos that are simultaneously watched by many viewers. Unfortunately, the most efficient broadcasting protocols are also the most difficult to implement because they allocate a multitude of very low bandwidth streams to each video. We present a protocol that uses between three and seven high-bandwidth streams per video and never requires more than five percent more bandwidth than any other protocol to guarantee a given average waiting time. Keywords: video-on-demand, broadcasting protocols, pyramid broadcasting, harmonic broadcasting, pagoda broadcasting. I. INTRODUCTION Ten years ago, most multimedia pundits were predicting that video-on-demand (VOD) [Wong88] would radically change our home entertainment habits. What happened was quite different: none of the companies that invested in VOD were able to come up with a single successful commercial system. The best ex...
