• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.13 no.1
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• pp.46-56
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• 2008

Double Patching is a multicasting technique for a VoD system which has been proposed to provide a true VoD service by making clients share a long patching stream as well as a regular stream For subsequent short patching streams, the technique always makes the long patching stream have extra data that will be played back during a double period of a patching window. In this paper, we propose a technique, using the start time of the latest short patching stream, optimizes Double Patching by deleting the useless data included in the long patching stream when the patching window of the long patching stream closes. The mean requirement for the server's bandwidth to provide the true VoD service is used as a performance metric, and the effect of the request inter-arrival time, the size of the client's local buffer and the video length on the mean bandwidth requirement is evaluated. Performance evaluation result shows that the proposed technique optimizes Double Patching in all cases.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• v.2 no.1
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• pp.14-19
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• 2014

In this paper, we propose a stream based patching technique in order to reduce demands of network output bandwidth required to provide the true video-on-demand (VoD) service in a Multimedia server. The proposed scheme calculates required streams to clients accurately by analyzing temporal relationships between already arrived requests in a multimedia server and still progressing streams, and then transmits streams freshly. Since our stream based patching technique induces new linking stream which is playing a link role between long and short patching streams, it reduces demand of network output bandwidth required to provide the true VoD service in a multimedia server. Accordingly, we know that the proposed scheme improves service latency and defection rate than those of existing patching technique by a simulation study.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.3 no.5
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• pp.444-460
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• 2009

In this paper, we propose an expanded patching technique in order to reduce the server network bandwidth requirements to support true VoD services in VoD Systems. Double Patching, which is a typical multicast technique, ensures that a long patching stream delivers not only essential video data for the current client but also extra video data for future clients. Since the extra data may include useless data, it results in server network bandwidth wastage. In order to prevent a server from transmitting useless data, the proposed patching technique uses a new kind of stream called a linking stream. A linking stream is transmitted to clients that have received short patching streams, and it plays a linking role between a patching stream and a regular stream. The linking stream enables a server to avoid transmitting unnecessary data delivered by a long patching stream in Double Patching, so the server never wastes its network bandwidth. Mathematical analysis shows that the proposed technique requires less server network bandwidth to support true VoD services than Double Patching. Moreover, simulation results show that it has better average service latency and client defection rate compared with Double Patching.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.11a
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• pp.360-365
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• 2006

VoD (Video-on-Demand) 서비스는 가입자가 원하는 컨텐츠를 실시간으로 전송하는 서비스의 형태이다. 오늘날은 방대한 양의 멀티미디어 데이터를 효율적으로 압축하고 보다 빠르게 전송할 수 있는 시스템의 발달이 가속화되고 있고 이는 VoD 서비스의 증가로도 이어지고 있다. 그러므로 가입자가 원하는 컨텐츠를 보다 효과적으로 제공할 수 있는 VoD 서비스의 방법을 찾는 것은 중요한 일이다. 본 논문에서는 기존의 NVoD (Near-VoD) 서비스 또는 TVoD (True-VoD) 서비스 만을 제공함으로서 생길 수 있는 단점을 없애고 장점만 살릴 수 있는 방법을 제안하였다. 이는 기존의 가입자단에 Buffer를 제공하여 NVoD를 TVoD화 함으로서 가능하게 하였다. 또한, 본 논문에서 제안한 방법이 필요한 버퍼의 크기를 제시하고 전체적인 알고리즘을 제시하여 이를 구체화 하였다.