An active buffer management technique for providing interactive functions in broadcast video-on-demand systems

Zongming Fei; Mostafa H. Ammar; Ibrahim Kamel; Sarit Mukherjee

doi:10.1109/TMM.2005.854403

An active buffer management technique for providing interactive functions in broadcast video-on-demand systems

Zongming Fei, Mostafa H. Ammar, Ibrahim Kamel, Sarit Mukherjee

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Abstract

Multicast delivery is an efficient approach to the provision of a video-on-demand (VoD) service. Interacting with the video stream is a desirable feature for users. However, it is a challenging task to provide the functionality in the multicast environment because a lot of users share multicast delivery channels. In this paper, we propose an active buffer management technique to provide interactive functions in broadcast VoD systems. In our scheme, the client can selectively prefetch segments from broadcast channels based on the observation of the play point in its local buffer. The content of the buffer is adjusted in such a way that the relative position of the play point is kept in the middle part of the buffer. Our simulations show that the active buffer management scheme can implement interactive actions through buffering with a high probability in a wide range of user interaction levels.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	942-950
Number of pages	9
Journal	IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
Volume	7
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/TMM.2005.854403
State	Published - Oct 2005

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Funding Information:
Manuscript received December 11, 2001; revised July 28, 2004. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant CCR-0204304. The associate editor coordinating the review of this manuscript and approving it for publication was Dr. Harrick M. Vin. Z. Fei is with the Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). M. H. Ammar is with the College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). I. Kamel is with the College of Information Systems, Zayed University, Dubai, United Arab Emirates (e-mail: [email protected]). S. Mukherjee is with Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, NJ 07733 USA (e-mail: [email protected]). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TMM.2005.854403

Keywords

Interactive functions
Multimedia streaming
Video-on-demand

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Signal Processing
Media Technology
Computer Science Applications
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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