Scheduling policies for an on-demand video server with batching
MULTIMEDIA '94 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Multimedia
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
Scheduling video programs in near video-on-demand systems
MULTIMEDIA '97 Proceedings of the fifth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Patching: a multicast technique for true video-on-demand services
MULTIMEDIA '98 Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Multimedia
The interactive multimedia jukebox (IMJ): a new paradigm for the on-demand delivery of audio/video
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
The Split and Merge Protocol for Interactive Video-on-Demand
IEEE MultiMedia
NGC '99 Proceedings of the First International COST264 Workshop on Networked Group Communication
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
Exploiting Client Bandwidth for More Efficient Video Broadcast
IC3N '98 Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks
A Permutation-Based Pyramid Broadcasting Scheme for Video-on-Demand Systems
ICMCS '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
Chaining: A Generalized Batching Technique for Video-On-Demand Systems
ICMCS '97 Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
Providing Unrestricted VCR Functions in Multicast Video-on-Demand Servers
ICMCS '98 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
The use of multicast delivery to provide a scalable and interactive video-on-demand service
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Shared interactive video for teleconferencing
MULTIMEDIA '03 Proceedings of the eleventh ACM international conference on Multimedia
LEMP: Lightweight Efficient Multicast Protocol for video on demand
Proceedings of the 2004 ACM symposium on Applied computing
Range Multicast for Video on Demand
Multimedia Tools and Applications
Broadcasting scheme with low client buffers and bandwidths for video-on-demand applications
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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In video-on-demand (VOD) applications, it is desirable to provide the user with the video-cassette-recorder-like (VCR) capabilities such as fast-forwarding a video or jumping to a specific frame. We address this issue in the broadcast framework, where each video is broadcast repeatedly on the network. Existing techniques rely on data prefetching as the mechanism to provide this functionality. This approach provides limited usability since the prefetching rate cannot keep up with typical fast-forward speeds. Fast-forwarding a video for several seconds would inevitably exhaust the prefetch buffer. We address this practical problem in this paper by repeatedly broadcasting the interactive versions of the videos. For instance, an interactive version might contain only every fifth frame in the original video. Our client software leverages these "interactive" broadcasts to provide better VCR service. We formally prove the correctness of this approach, and compare its performance to a prefetch method, called active buffer management. This scheme has been shown to offer, in the broadcast environment, the best performance to date. Our simulation results indicate that the new technique is superior in handling long-duration VCR actions.