@techreport{TR-IC-97-18,
  number = {IC-97-18},
  author = {Fonseca, Nelson L. S. and Franco, Cristiane M. R. and Schaffa, Frank},
  title = {Comparing Network Designs for the Provision of Distributed Home Theatre Services},
  month = {October},
  year = {1997}, 
  institution = {Institute of Computing, University of Campinas},
  note = {In English, 26 pages.
    \par\selectlanguage{english}\textbf{Abstract}
      Video services is both a major business driver and a bandwidth
      consumer for the future broadband integrated
      network. Understanding different video services requirements is
      of paramount importance for network design. In this paper, we
      study Distributed Home Theatre (DHT), a video service which
      allows distributed users to debate a film. We compare different
      network designs for the provision of DHT services, and study the
      interplay between bandwidth reduction and program
      replication. We evaluate the impact of user distribution, and
      number of users per session on this interplay. Moreover, we
      analyze networks with both DHT and video on demand services.
  }
}