摘要 |
<p>A method of receiver-based controlling the reception data rate of a session which may include multiple channels and which has been distributed to said receiver over a multicast network, said method comprising:
based on a unitary cost and the rate of each channel as well as based on a budget for transmission costs, determining the number of channels as allowed by the budget; and
running only as many channels for the session as are allowed based on the budget considerations.
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