A Study on Buffer Control Method of Set-top Box in Interactive Video-on-Demand Service

대화식 주문형 비디오 서비스에서의 셋톱박스 버퍼 제어 방안 연구

This paper propose a solution to resolve data overflow or leakage when a subscriber receive data to service provider. The set-top box can communicate with a service provider and can inform the service provider its data overflow or leakage. When service provider received this control signal, it changes data transmit rate and transmits data with changed rate. The buffer of set-top box is important because incoming data from a service provider are stored by it.