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A New Scheduling Scheme for Multicast True VoD Service

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Multicast Video-on-Demand (VoD) has excellent performance, but it is very difficult to equip such a system with full support for interactive VCR functions. In this paper, we propose a new scheme, called the Best-Effort Patching (BEP), that offers a TVoD service in terms of both request admission and VCR interaction for multicast VoD system. Moreover, by using a novel dynamic merging algorithm, BEP significantly improves the efficiency of TVoD interactivity, especially for popular videos. Our extensive simulation results show that BEP outperforms the conventional multicast TVoD interaction protocols.

The work reported in this paper is partly supported by the US NSF under Grant EIA-9806280 and the NNSF of China under Grant 69873006. The work was done when Huadong Ma visited EECS Depart., the University of Michigan.

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Ma, H., Shin, K.G. (2001). A New Scheduling Scheme for Multicast True VoD Service. In: Shum, HY., Liao, M., Chang, SF. (eds) Advances in Multimedia Information Processing — PCM 2001. PCM 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2195. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45453-5_91

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