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Nowadays, some powerful client devices, e.g., smart phone, set top boxes and digital video recorders, are commonly used to enhance digital TV broadcasting services. This paper proposes a virtual channel platform by organizing these client devices to virtually support each user a dedicated channel according to her/his demand. In the proposed platform, each video is partitioned into many small segments before it is shared in a peer-to-peer network. A virtual channel is constructed by composing these video segments into a long video playout sequence. However, retrieving these small segments from a large scale peer-to-peer network could cause relatively large query overhead. To reduce the number of queries, we propose a virtual stream mechanism by aggregating popular adjacent video segments to logically form a long video object. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed virtual channel platform can improve the service performance.
The research is supported by the NSC99-2221-E-007-077-MY3, National Science Council, R.O.C.
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Huang, JW., Lin, NC., Yang, KC., Chan, CL., Wang, JS. (2011). A Virtual Channel Technique for Supporting P2P Streaming. In: Hsu, CH., Yang, L.T., Ma, J., Zhu, C. (eds) Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing. UIC 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6905. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23641-9_30
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