Block level buffer management for video streaming services in IPTV environments

Ohhoon Kwon, Taeseok Kim, Hyokyung Bahn

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

5 Scopus citations

Abstract

With the widespread adoption of broadband Internet services and recent advances in video technologies, Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) is becoming increasingly popular. IPTV provides a variety of interesting services such as VOD (Video on Demand), PVR (Personal Video Recorder), game, shopping as well as live TV broadcast. In order to support various interactive services of IPTV, more elaborate software should be equipped for video streaming services. Specifically, popularity-based interval caching is effective in improving the performance of video streaming services in IPTV environments. This paper shows that block level refinement of existing schemes can further improve the service quality and performance of video streaming in IPTV. Simulations with real world VOD traces show that the proposed scheme improves the cache hit rate and the response time significantly.

Original languageEnglish
Article number5606330
Pages (from-to)1809-1813
Number of pages5
JournalIEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics
Volume56
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2010

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
1This research has been conducted by the Research Grant of Kwangwoon University in 2009. Ohhoon Kwon is with National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, 101-8430, Japan. (e-mail: [email protected]) Taeseok Kim is with the Department of Computer Engineering, Kwangwoon University, Seoul, 139-701, Korea. (email: [email protected]) Hyokyung Bahn is with the Department of Computer Science, Ewha University, Seoul, 120-750, Korea. Hyokyung Bahn is the corresponding author (email: [email protected]) Contributed Paper Manuscript received 07/11/10 Current version published 09/23/10 Electronic version published 09/30/10.

Keywords

  • Buffering
  • Caching
  • Interval caching. IPTV
  • Streaming
  • Video

Fingerprint

Dive into the research topics of 'Block level buffer management for video streaming services in IPTV environments'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.

Cite this