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Channel Transition Invariant Fast Broadcasting Scheme
Fast broadcasting (FB) is a popular near video-on-demand system where a video
is divided into equal size segments those are repeatedly transmitted over a
number of channels following a pattern. For user satisfaction, it is required
to reduce the initial user waiting time and client side buffer requirement at
streaming. Use of additional channels can achieve the objective. However, some
augmentation is required to the basic FB scheme as it lacks any mechanism to
realise a well defined relationship among the segment sizes at channel
transition. Lack of correspondence between the segments causes intermediate
waiting for the clients while watching videos. Use of additional channel
requires additional bandwidth. In this paper, we propose a modified FB scheme
that achieves zero initial clients waiting time and provides a mechanism to
control client side buffer requirement at streaming without requiring
additional channels. We present several results to demonstrate the
effectiveness of the proposed FB scheme over the existing ones.Comment: 2014 9th International Forum on Strategic Technology (IFOST