An alternative paradigm for scalable on-demand applications: Evaluating and deploying the interactive multimedia jukebox

IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 658-672

  Almeroth, Kevin C ^a,b   Ammar, Mostafa H ^a,c  

^a IEEE   (United States)

^b University of California   (United States)

^c GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Jukebox paradigm; MBone; Multicast; Scalable; Video on demand; WWW

Indexed keywords

CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTERACTIVE DEVICES; MULTICASTING; MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; SUBSCRIPTION TELEVISION; TELEVISION BROADCASTING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERACTIVE MULTIMEDIA JUKEBOX; MULTICAST BACKBONE; PROGRAM SCHEDULING POLICIES;

VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EID: 0033157562     PISSN: 10414347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/69.790835     Document Type: Review

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