The use of multicast delivery to provide a scalable and interactive video-on-demand service

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1110-1122

  Almeroth, K C ^a   Ammar, M H ^b  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); COST EFFECTIVENESS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; TELEVISION TRANSMISSION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

CUSTOMER SET TOP BOX; INTERACTIVE VIDEO ON DEMAND SERVICE; INTERACTIVITY; MULTICAST DELIVERY; TRANSMISSION CHANNEL;

VOICE/DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030216807     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/49.508282     Document Type: Article

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