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US 6,691,312 B1Granted
Multicasting video
AssigneeUniversity of Massachusetts
InventorsSubhabrata Sen, Don Towsley, Zhi-Li Zhang, Jayanta Kumar Dey
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AssigneeUniversity of Massachusetts
InventorsSubhabrata Sen, Don Towsley, Zhi-Li Zhang, Jayanta Kumar Dey
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A method of multicasting video to multiple client nodes via intermediate nodes that includes accessing video information descriptive of the video to be multicast, accessing information describing a distribution tree of nodes from a source of the video to the multiple clients nodes via one or more internetwork nodes, accessing rate constraints of nodes in the distribution tree, accessing buffer allocations of the nodes in the distribution tree, and determining one or more smoothed transmission schedules for each node in the distribution tree based on the accessed video information, the accessed information describing the distribution tree, the accessed rate constraints of nodes in the distribution tree, and the accessed buffer allocations of the nodes in the distribution tree, the one or more transmission schedules describing the transmission of video data to one or more children nodes.
A method of multicasting video to multiple client nodes via intermediate nodes, the method comprising:
A computer program product, disposed on a computer readable medium, for multicasting video to multiple client nodes via intermediate nodes, the program including instructions for causing a processor to:
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