A multicast nVoD schema with zero-overhead implicit error correction

In this paper we present a novel multicast near-Video on Demand (nVoD) schema which relies on the intrinsic redundancy of nVoD protocols to provide implicit error correction, by employing content segments as blocks for coding operations. The results in this paper show that our proposal outperforms previous approaches involving explicit error correction (error protection within content segments) in terms of transmission bandwidth for the same packet loss probability. ©2008 IEEE.