Abstract:
"Delayed-Multicast" is a novel transmission
technique which uses internal nodes in the transmission paths
from the server to the clients to buffer data streams. The buffers
are used to service later requests without having to start new
streams from the server, thus bringing the benefits of traditional
multicast without the constraint that all requests must be
serviced at the same time.
In this paper, we describe our new scalable "Delayed-
Multicast" framework and present an optimal resource
allocation algorithm that minimizes the total bandwidth
required to service a set of requests.
