Design of multicast delivery for providing VCR functionality in interactive video-on-demand systems

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 141-148

  Poon, Wilson Wing Fai ^a   Lo, Kwok Tung ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; MULTICASTING; PROBABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES; VIDEOCASSETTE RECORDERS;

SINGLE RATE MULTICAST DOUBLE RATE UNICAST SCHEME; SYSTEM BLOCKING PROBABILITY;

VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EID: 0033101197     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/11.754993     Document Type: Article

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