Title
Reverse Fast Broadcasting (RFB) for Video-on-Demand Applications
Abstract
A popular video can be broadcast by partitioning the video into segments, which are broadcast on several channels simultaneously and periodically. This method allows multiple users to share channels, leading to higher bandwidth utilization. Previous studies mainly focus on reducing viewers' waiting time. This work studies another important issue, namely client buffer. When the term "client buffer" is used, it means the worst-case buffer requirements (i.e., the maximum value). savings. A reverse fast broadcasting (RFB) scheme is proposed to alleviate the buffer problem. There are two specific properties for RFB. First, this scheme arranges the segments in descending order of their numeric indices on each channel at the server end. Second, RFB requires a client to receive segments as late as possible, such that the client buffers the smallest number of segments. RFB has the same waiting time as the fast broadcasting (FB) scheme, but just needs a half of buffer spaces required by FB. RFB also requires smaller client buffers than the pyramid broadcasting (PB), skyscraper broadcasting (SkB), greedy disk-conserving broadcasting (GDB), BroadCatch, and recursive frequency-splitting schemes. Moreover, if we apply the same changes to the PB, SkB and GDB schemes, their buffer requirements decrease by 25% to 75%
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1109/TBC.2006.888917
TBC
Keywords
DocType
Volume
cable TV,channel sharing,multiuser channels,broadcast channels,skyscraper broadcasting,greedy disk-conserving broadcasting,video-on-demand (VOD),broadcasting,recursive frequency-splitting scheme,bandwidth allocation,buffer storage,client buffer saving,bandwidth utilization,RFB,hot-video broadcasting,channel allocation,video segment,Buffers,multiple user,reverse fast broadcasting,video on demand,Broad Catch,client-server systems,video-on-demand application,pyramid broadcasting
Journal
53
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
0018-9316
23
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.85
23
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hsiang-Fu Yu162338.09
Hung-Chang Yang21068.61
Li-Ming Tseng327221.61