Abstract:Broadcast television viewing over the Internet (IPTV) is becoming commonplace. Multicasting trees serve as an efficient mechanism to deliver streaming data as each internal node duplicates the packets it receives and sends it along to its children which eventually delivers them to the clients. Given a set of multicasting trees whose roots are servers capable of broadcasting a set of distinct channels, and a set of clients (which are not part of the multicasting trees) each with a set of requested channels, our… Show more
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