Buffering Techniques for Delivery of Compressed Video in Video-on-Demand Systems

• Main Author: Feng, Wu-chi (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1997.
• Series: The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, Multimedia Systems and Applications, 417
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer communication systems.; Data structures (Computer science).; Multimedia information systems.; Computer Science.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Computer Communication Networks.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Computer Science, general.

Many emerging technologies such as video conferencing, video-on-demand, and digital libraries require the efficient delivery of compressed video streams. For applications that require the delivery of compressed stored multimedia streams, the a priori knowledge available about these compressed stream...

Table of Contents:

• Preliminaries
• Bandwidth Smoothing Algorithms
• A Survey of Bandwidth Smoothing Techniques
• Interactivity in Video-on-Demand Systems
• Bandwidth Smoothing for Interactivity
• Conclusions and Future Directions.