Evaluation of Division Based Broadcasting System Considering Additional Information

Abstract

Due to the recent popularization of IP multicast, the continuous broadcasting of audio or video media data has attracted great attention. Although servers can concurrently deliver data to many clients, clients have to wait until their data are broadcast. In division based broadcasting, many researches have proposed scheduling methods to reduce the waiting time. A division based broadcasting system has also been proposed to evaluate these schemes. However, this system does not consider such problems as additional information that increase the waiting time before playing the data as well as the interruption time while playing it. In this paper, we implement a division based broadcasting system that considers additional information. In our proposed system, we evaluate the effectiveness of reducing the interruption time using conventional methods.