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Adaptive video-on-demand broadcasting in ubiquitous computing environment

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Video-on-demand (VOD) is a service that allows users to view any video program from a server at the time of their choice, such kind of services are expected to be popular in future ubiquitous computing environment. Lots of broadcasting protocols for VOD services have been proposed, but they usually focus only on the tradeoff between bandwidth and delay, thus they are usually not efficient for the local storage. Since the ubiquitous network is heterogeneous and users will have different resource and communication capability, we need to address the storage issue in VOD systems. In this paper, we present several new effective broadcasting schemes, which can intelligently adjust the solution according to available bandwidth and local storage to achieve an ideal waiting time.

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This research was supported by “Fostering Talent in Emergent Research Fields” program in Special Coordination Funds for promoting Science and Technology by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. Partially supported by Foundation of ubiquitous computing and networking project (UCN) Project, the Ministry of Knowledge Economy (MKE) 21st Century Frontier R&D Program in Korea and a result of subproject UCN 08B3-S1-10M.

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  1. Network Architecture Group, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 4-2-1 Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo, 184-8795, Japan

    Chao Peng

  2. Graduate School of Information Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan

    Chao Peng & Yasuo Tan

  3. Department of Computer Science, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Naixue Xiong

  4. Department of Computer Science, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, B2G 2W5, Canada

    Laurence T. Yang

  5. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kyungnam University, Masan, Korea

    Jong Hyuk Park

  6. Department of Computer Engineering, Halla University, Wonju, Korea

    Soon-Seok Kim

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Peng, C., Tan, Y., Xiong, N. et al. Adaptive video-on-demand broadcasting in ubiquitous computing environment. Pers Ubiquit Comput 13, 479–488 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-009-0227-6

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