Improving bandwidth efficiency of video-on-demand servers

Computer Networks

Volumn 31, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 111-123

  Carter, Steven W ^a   Long, Darrell D E ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Bandwidth; Efficiency; Video on demand

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

STREAM TAPPING;

VIDEO ON DEMAND;

EID: 0039036114     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-7552(98)00233-5     Document Type: Article

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