We investigate the dynamics of a distributed video proxy-cache system that is able to adapt
the number of running nodes depending on conditions like client request patterns, network …

Caching of Internet content in caches local to users is beneficial to both users and the
network, because it reduces retrieval times for the user as well as reduces load on the …

We present two techniques to improve the capacity of video on demand systems. Video on
demand is an electronic video rental system in which clients request and play videos on …

We look at a number of issues in organizing a file system cache in an Internet multimedia
server. Traces from NCSA World-Wide-Web (WWW) server are used in this study. We study …

Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems are attractive multimedia services over the Internet.
However, conventional VoD systems can not serve many viewers simultaneously because …

The growing popularity of over the top (OTT) video streaming services has led to a strong
increase in bandwidth capacity requirements in the network. By deploying intermediary …

Internet streaming applications are affected by adverse network conditions such as high
packet loss rates and long delays. This paper aims at mitigating such effects by leveraging …

It requires an enormous amount of media server and network resources for on-demand
delivery of video objects to a large number of clients with high start-up latency and packet …

The compelling success of Internet Video-on-Demand (VoD) services imposes hard
requirements on the current Internet in terms of servers and network capabilities (eg for load …

We propose in this paper an original approach to the TV stream structuring problem. The
goal of our work is to automatically break the TV stream into telecasts and advertisings and …