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Multicast Video-on-Demand services

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Kang G. ShinAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review, Volume 32, Issue 1

Pages 31 - 43

https://doi.org/10.1145/510726.510729

Published: 01 January 2002 Publication History

Abstract

The server's storage I/O and network I/O bandwidths are the main bottleneck of VoD service. Multicast offers an efficient means of distributing a video program to multiple clients, thus greatly improving the VoD performance. However, there are many problems to overcome before development of multicast VoD systems. This paper critically evaluates and discusses the recent progress in developing multicast VoD systems. We first present the concept and architecture of multicast VoD, and then introduce the techniques used in multicast VoD systems. We also analyze and evaluate problems related to multicast VoD service. Finally, we present open issues on multicast VoD as possible future research directions.

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ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review Volume 32, Issue 1

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DOI:10.1145/510726

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