@misc{9717, author = {Espen Jacobsen and Carsten Griwodz and P{\r a}l Halvorsen}, title = {Pull-Patching: a Combination of Multicast and Adaptive Segmented HTTP Streaming}, abstract = {Multicast delivery for video streaming gains credibility with the introduction of commercial IPTV. We therefore revisit patching, a video-on-demand idea from the 1990s. We have built Pull-Patching, an approach that combines the patch- ing ideas with adaptive segmented HTTP streaming, a unicast technique that is used by most commercial providers of large-scale, true video-on-demand in the Internet today. The prototype is tested in a combined Internet and lab environment where we show the influence of practical factors like packet loss, delay and limited resource availability, and identify several details that require further study.}, year = {2010}, journal = {Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM)}, pages = {799-802}, month = {October}, publisher = {ACM}, isbn = {978-1-60558-933-6}, editor = {Alberto del Bimbo and Shih-Fu Chang and Arnold Smeulders}, }