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Simple VBR staircase broadcasting (SVSB)

Hsiang-Fu et al., 2004

Document ID
13050893487965873647
Author
Hsiang-Fu Y
Yang H
Tseng L
Chen Y
Publication year
Publication venue
First IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. CCNC 2004.

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One way to broadcast a popular video is to partition the video into segments, which are broadcast on several streams periodically. The approach lets multiple users share streams; thus, the stress on scarce bandwidth can be alleviated without sacrificing viewers' waiting …
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