With the growth of broadband networks, Video-on-Demand (VoD) has become realistic. Many significant broadcasting schemes have been proposed to reduce the viewers’ waiting time. However, clients are required to receive video segments altogether from all channels. This disregard not only needs a lot of client bandwidth, but also incurs more buffer requirements. To escape from these constraints, t...

Broadcasting protocols can improve the efficiency of video on demand services by reducing the bandwidth required to transmit videos that are simultaneously watched by many viewers. It has been recently shown that broadcasting protocols using a very large number of very low bandwidth streams for each video required less total bandwidth than protocols using a few high-bandwidth streams shared by ...

The growing availability of access to the Internet has changed – and is still changing – the technical, economic and regulatory conditions under which broadcasting is taking place. This is in particular an issue for terrestrial broadcasting, as mobile services try to gain access to spectrum once exclusively used by terrestrial broadcasting networks. Changes in users’ habits and expectations, an...

As an innovation technique, Augmented Reality (AR) has been gradually deployed in the broadcast, videography and cinematography industries. Virtual graphics generated by AR are dynamic and overlap on the surface of the environment so that the original appearance can be greatly enhanced in comparison with traditional broadcasting. In addition, AR enables broadcasters to interact with augmented v...

All-to-all broadcasting refers to the process by which every node broadcasts its certain piece of information to all other nodes. In this paper, we study all-to-all broadcasting for distributed systems by considering two classes schemes: one is based on generation of minimal complete sets and the other is based on propagation of experts. The former always completes the broadcasting in the minim...

This chapter presents several techniques for broadcasting multimedia data (audio and video) over the Internet. Internet broadcasting (also called webcasting) techniques have become very important in applications such as Internet (or Web) radio and television, real-time broadcasting of critical data (such as stock prices), distance learning, videoconferencing, and many others. We describe the cu...

Optimal broadcasting in mobile ad hoc networks is crucial for providing control and routing information for multicast and point to point communication algorithms. This tutorial presents an overview on the state of the art of broadcasting techniques in mobile ad hoc networks and makes recommendations to improve the efficiency and performance of the current and future broadcasting techniques.

Dramatic changes in media law and practice took place on Israel’s 70th year of independence: The Press Ordinance was abolished; the Broadcasting Authority (IBA) replaced by Israeli Corporation (IBC); Second Law (which governs commercial broadcasting) amended, abolishing “dual broadcasting model” established 1990s. What characterizes these is that they mark breaking up policy structure from its ...