A practical multicast transmission control method for multi-channel HDTV IP broadcasting system

  • Authors:
  • Kazuhiro Kamimura;Teruyuki Hasegawa;Haruo Hoshino;Shigehiro Ano;Toru Hasegawa

  • Affiliations:
  • Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Tokyo, Japan;KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Saitama, Japan;Science & Technical Research Laboratories, Japan Broadcasting Corporation (NHK), Tokyo, Japan;KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Saitama, Japan;KDDI R&D Laboratories Inc., Saitama, Japan

  • Venue:
  • PCM'05 Proceedings of the 6th Pacific-Rim conference on Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - Volume Part II
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

According to deployment of broadband access networks like FTTH (Fiber-To-The-Home), many Internet Service Providers in Japan start providing video broadcasting services via IP multicast. As the service develops into higher quality and more diverse, a broadcasting system capable of handling high bit-rate contents will be required. However, typical implementation of broadcasting server may have problems because of poor packet timing control precision. In this paper, we present a new transmission control method for IP multicast that is synchronized with TCP flow control, which can be applied to QoS-guaranteed networks. We evaluate its validity using an experimental system with HDTV (High Definition TV) streams. We are able to demonstrate that the system can simultaneously distribute eight-channel HDTV streams.