Efficiency is essential for Video-on-Demand (VOD) to be successful. Conventional VOD servers are inefficient; they dedicate a disk stream for each client, quickly using up all ava...
Accurate demand forecasting remains difficult and challenging in today's competitive and dynamic business environment, but even a little improvement in demand prediction may ...
The key performance bottleneck for a video-on-demand (VOD) server is bandwidth, which controls the number of clients the server can simultaneously support. Previous work has shown...
Steven W. Carter, Darrell D. E. Long, Jehan-Fran&c...
We present a stream tapping protocol that involves clients in the video distribution process. As in conventional stream tapping, our protocol lets new clients tap the most recent ...