Channel allocation under batching and VCR control in video-on-demand systems
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on multimedia processing and technology
Dynamic batching policies for an on-demand video server
Multimedia Systems
Metropolitan area video-on-demand service using pyramid broadcasting
Multimedia Systems
Skyscraper broadcasting: a new broadcasting scheme for metropolitan video-on-demand systems
SIGCOMM '97 Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM '97 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communication
Synchronization of distributed multimedia systems with user interactions
Multimedia Systems
Patching: a multicast technique for true video-on-demand services
MULTIMEDIA '98 Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Improving bandwidth efficiency of video-on-demand servers
IC3N '97 Selected papers of the 6th international conference on Computer communications and networks
The Split and Merge Protocol for Interactive Video-on-Demand
IEEE MultiMedia
An Efficient Implementation of Interactive Video-on-Demand
MASCOTS '00 Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
Providing Interactive Functions for Staggered Multicast Near Video-On-Demand Systems
ICMCS '99 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems - Volume 2
Video-on-Demand Server Efficiency through Stream Tapping
IC3N '97 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
An enhanced recursive frequency splitting broadcasting algorithm for near video-on-demand services
Information Processing Letters
A Permutation-Based Pyramid Broadcasting Scheme for Video-on-Demand Systems
ICMCS '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
A broadcasting scheme with supporting VCR functions for near video-on-demand systems
Computer Communications
Enhanced harmonic data broadcasting and receiving scheme for popular video service
IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
Performance model of interactive video-on-demand systems
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
The use of multicast delivery to provide a scalable and interactive video-on-demand service
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
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This work presents a broadcasting protocol for interactive video-on-demand service. The proposed broadcasting allows the user to play the video-cassette-recorder (VCR) functions which includes the limited fast-forwarding capability. Consider a film S is divided into n equal parts {S1, S2,...,Sn} and played through k channels. The user simultaneously downloads the film segments from k channels into the set-top-box (STB) and plays them in order. Every time the user wants to play VCR functions, the needed segments either saved in the user's STB or are being continuously downloaded from k channels. The main character is that the server doesn't need to allocate an extra stream to send the missing segments to the user. As a result, the proposed method outperforms the previous broadcasting methods without an extra stream in terms of the maximum waiting time, for the same number of channels.