Abstract:Broadcasting popular media to clients is the ultimate scalable solution for media-ondemand. The simple solution of downloading and viewing the media from one channel cannot guarantee a reasonable startup delay for viewing with no interruptions. Two known techniques to reduce the delay are pre-loading and pre-buffering. In the former an initial segment of the media is already in the client buffer, and in the latter segments of the media are not transmitted in sequence and clients may pre-buffer later segments o… Show more
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