A hybrid video-on-demand data broadcasting and receiving scheme of harmonic and staggered schemes

In providing video-on-demand (VoD) services to a number of clients through networks, the bandwidth requirements of video transmission restrict VoD services. For this reason, many significant broadcasting-based VoD schemes have been proposed to efficiently support services. However, the broadcasting-based VoD schemes approach needs frequency channel hopping, using many channels at the same time and managing many segments of a video. These make it difficult to implement. In this paper, we propose a harmonic staggered broadcasting scheme which has a simple structure and substantially improved VoD efficiency. The proposed scheme substantially reduces the number of segments required and the frequency for switching channels. Also this new scheme performs significantly better than the existing VoD schemes in viewer's waiting time and buffer requirements with simplicity. The numerical results demonstrate that the viewer's waiting time of the harmonic staggered broadcasting scheme is close to the harmonic broadcasting scheme and the buffer requirements of this can be adjusted by a video dividing coefficient h. Index Terms--Bandwidth requirements, harmonic staggered broadcasting scheme, simple structure, video-on-demand, video-on-demand efficiency.