In this paper, we examine the prefetching strategies in a peerdriven video on-demand system. In our design, each video is encoded into multiple low bit-rate substreams and copies ...
Yanming Shen, Zhengye Liu, Shivendra S. Panwar, Ke...
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...
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...
This paper presents a new video-on-demand streaming technique in peer-to-peer (P2P) environments. While a number of P2P live video streaming techniques have been proposed in the p...
In this paper we have proposed a dynamic buffer allocation algorithm for the prefix, based on the popularity of the videos. More cache blocks are allocated for most popular videos...