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2001
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A comparison of layering and stream replication video multicast schemes

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A comparison of layering and stream replication video multicast schemes
The heterogeneity of the Internet’s transmission resources and end system capability makes it difficult to agree on acceptable traffic characteristics among the multiple receivers of a multicast video stream. Three basic approaches have been proposed to deal with this problem: 1) multicasting of replicated video streams at different rates, 2) multicasting the video encoded in cumulative layers, and 3) multicasting the video encoded in non-cumulative layers. Even though there is a common belief that the layering approach is better than the replicated stream approach, there has been no studies that compare these schemes. This paper is devoted to such a systematic comparison. Our starting point is an observation (substantiated by results in the literature) that a bandwidth penalty is incurred by encoding a video stream in layers. We argue that a fair comparison of these schemes needs to take into account this penalty as well as the specifics of the encoding used in each scheme, proto...
Taehyun Kim, Mostafa H. Ammar
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Type Conference
Year 2001
Where NOSSDAV
Authors Taehyun Kim, Mostafa H. Ammar
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