Research Article

Efficient Periodic Broadcasting for Mobile Networks at Small Client Receiving Bandwidth and Buffering Space

Table 1

List of terms used in the proposed scheme and their respective definitions.

TermDefinition

Video length
Number of broadcasting channels for each video on the server side
th broadcasting channel,
Number of segments of a video
th video segment,
Number of segments transferred on channel
Total segments transferred on channels through ,
Video playback rate assumed to equal the data transmission rate of each channel
Starting time to watch the first segment
Time unitBasic unit on time axis, whose length equals the length of a segment (i.e., )