First segment partition for video-on-demand broadcasting protocols.pdfVIP

First segment partition for video-on-demand broadcasting protocols W.-F. Poona, K.-T. Loa,*, J. Fengb aCentre for Multimedia Signal Processing, Department of Electronic and Information Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China bDepartment of Computer Engineering and Information Technology, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China Received 20 March 2002; revised 20 September 2002; accepted 31 October 2002 Abstract Broadcasting is an efficient transmission scheme to provide on-demand service for