A Stream Tapping Protocol Involving Clients in the Distribution of Videos on Demand

We present a stream tapping protocol that involves clients in the video distribution process. As in conventional stream tapping, our protocol allows new clients to tap the most recent broadcast of the video they are watching. While conventional stream tapping required the server to send to these cl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Santosh Kulkarni, Jehan-François Pâris, Purvi Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2008-01-01
Series:Advances in Multimedia
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2008/265309