Sharing Multicast Videos Using Patching Streams

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 125-146

  Cai, Ying ^a   Hua, Kien A ^b  

^a Iowa State University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Multicast; Multimedia communications; Patching; Performance study; Service latency; Video on demand

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MULTICASTING; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

PATCHING STREAMS;

MULTIMEDIA SYSTEMS;

EID: 0141924295     PISSN: 13807501     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1025516608573     Document Type: Article

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