The required real-time and high-rate transfers for multimedia data severely limit the number
of requests that can be serviced by Video-on-Demand (VOD) servers. Resource sharing …

This paper addresses the resource management problem in a distributed video-on-demand
(VOD) system. The objective of resource management is to manage video objects in a VOD …

To design a cost effective VOD server, it is important to carefully manage the system
resources so that the number of concurrent viewers can be maximized. Previous research …

Video-on-demand (VoD) service providers are intensely interested in transport, storage,
streaming and caching in content delivery networks. Today's 5,000-hour library may grow …

A distributed VOD system includes several VOD sub-systems, each VOD sub-system
consisting of an archive server (AS), a continuous media server (CMS) and a medata DB. A …

The architecture of the Berkeley distributed hierarchical video-on-demand (VOD) system
consists of continuous media servers (CMS) basically standing as a cache between the …

Video sharing is becoming a popular service in Internet. As the popularity of video sharing
goes up, the cost of operating a video sharing system is also soaring upward. With its good …

We develop a unified model of a hierarchical video-on-demand (VoD) system by integrating
the storage and the network subsystems. Rather than restricting the analysis to an isolated …

This paper presents a mathematical model and a prototype of a resource-efficient storage
server for high-bitrate video-on-demand (VoD) applications. Rapid exponential growth of …

Near-video-on-demand (NVOD) provides different a service from true video-on-demand
(VOD). Since the NVOD service needs to be much cheaper than the VOD service, it is …