An effective scheduling method with finer data division for continuous media data broadcasting

Abstract

Due to the recent popularization of digital broadcasting systems, broadcasting continuous media data such as music or movies has attracted much attention. In general continuous media data broadcasting, since clients have to wait to receive data before playing it, various methods to reduce waiting time have been studied. Some reduce the waiting time by dividing the data into several segments and broadcasting precedent segments frequently with a single channel. However, by dividing the data into finer segments and producing an effective broadcast schedule, the waiting time can be further reduced. In this paper, we propose an effective scheduling method to reduce waiting time with finer data division