TITLE:
Adaptability of Conservative Staircase Scheme for Live Videos
AUTHORS:
Sudeep Kanav, Satish Chand
KEYWORDS:
Conservative Staircase Scheme, Staircase Scheme, Live Video Channel, Channel Transition
JOURNAL NAME:
Circuits and Systems,
Vol.2 No.3,
July
6,
2011
ABSTRACT: Existing broadcasting schemes provide services for the stored videos. The basic approach in these schemes is to divide the video into segments and organize them over the channels for proper transmission. Some schemes use segments as a basic unit, whereas the others require segments to be further divided into subsegments. In a scheme, the number of segments/subsegments depends upon the bandwidth allocated to the video by the video server. For constructing segments, the video length should be known. If it is unknown, then the segments cannot be constructed and hence the scheme cannot be applied to provide the video services. This is an important issue especially in live broadcasting applications wherein the ending time of the video is unknown, for example, cricket match. In this paper, we propose a mechanism for the conservative staircase scheme so that it can support live video broadcasting.