Video on Demand Technologies and Demonstrations

Abstract

This effort demonstrated a functional video on demand (VoD) service running over a wide area high speed Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network. This report presents an overview of the efforts key results and accomplishments. the overall architecture of the video delivery service is described, including the implementation of the video search and retrieval methodology. The video server and video client architectures are discussed in detail, describing the options and paths chosen. Also included in the report is an overview of the hardware and network infrastructure that was built to provide the project testbed along with the wide area network (WAN) demonstrations used during the effort. Separate areas of the report provide information on several fundamental research issues such as Variable Bit Rate vs. Constant Bit Rate transmission, wavelet compression technology for video, I/O support for scalable coders, and multimedia networking.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA353279

Entities

People

  • Geoffrey C. Fox
  • Marek Podgorny

Organizations

  • Syracuse University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Counter WMD
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Communication Channels
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Program Reliability
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Electronic Mail
  • Local Area Networks
  • Multiple Access
  • Network Architecture
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Network Topology
  • Operating Systems
  • Transport Protocols
  • Web Browsers

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Business Analytics
  • Computer Networking
  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.