TRANSMISSION APPARATUS, TRANSMISSION METHOD, AND NETWORK APPARATUS FOR MULTI-VIEW VIDEO STREAMING USING A META FILE INCLUDING CACHE PRIORITY OR EXPIRY TIME INFORMATION OF SAID VIDEO STREAMS

摘要

To increase the efficiency of a cache and delivery resource control of video data streams in a network. A meta file including information used by a client terminal to acquire a predetermined number of video data streams of given content deliverable by a delivery server via a network is generated. When a transmission request is received from a client terminal, the meta file is transmitted to the client terminal via the network. The meta file includes an index regarding a cache of each of the video data streams.