Maximizing the number of users in an interactive video-on-demand system

IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 281-292

  Bakiras, Spiridon ^a   Li, Victor O K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Admission control; Distributed video prefetching; Effective bandwidth; User interactivity; Video on demand

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BANDWIDTH; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); IMAGE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PACKET SWITCHING; QUALITY OF SERVICE;

ADMISSION CONTROL; DISTRIBUTED VIDEO PREFETCHING; EFFECTIVE BANDWIDTH; USER INTERACTIVITY;

VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EID: 0036951364     PISSN: 00189316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBC.2002.806194     Document Type: Article

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