IDRS: an interactive digital radio station over Internet

Many networking applications become feasible and required with the popular use of Internet. In this paper, we present an interactive digital radio sta tion, which is called IDRS, that can be executed over Internet. Two modes t hat exist in IDRS are the DJ mode and the Call-In mode. In the DJ mode, mus ic and/or DJ's speech are multicasted to audiences; in the Call-In mode, an audience is allowed to Call-In. In the Call-In mode, the audience speech, the DJ's speech, and/or the background music can be multicasted to audience s. Related technique issues and the corresponding system development are pr esented in detail in this paper. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.