Scheduling Algorithms for the Broadcast Delivery of Multimedia Products

  • Authors:

  • V. Vinay;Krithi Ramamritham

  • Affiliations:

  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • WECWIS '00 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Advance Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2000)
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Free bandwidth in television channels, which is available in the form of the Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI), is currently being utilized to broadcast program information, HTML pages and closed captioning. This bandwidth can be used to broadcast data and products like video clips, software, multimedia packages, etc. thereby satisfying several customers with a single transmission at very high speeds. We present several heuristic algorithms that attempt to maximize the revenue earned by an E-commerce tailored to deal with different customer service policies.