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.
| Term | Definition |
| | 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 unit | Basic unit on time axis, whose length equals the length of a segment (i.e., ) |
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