Video-on-demand (VOD) servers need to be efficiently designed in order to support a large
number of users viewing the same or different videos at different rates. While considering a …

Considers the retrieval of variable bit-rate (VBR) video data from a storage server subject to
the constraint that the server's buffer between its disk and network subsystem neither …

Advances in storage technologies are making it feasible to design video servers that are
capable of supporting continuous, real-time delivery of multiple video streams …

In this paper we introduce a scalable Video-on-Demand (VoD) system called GloVE (Global
Video Environment) in which active clients cooperate to create a shareable video cache that …

Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems are a category of adhoc multimedia services. To provide a
quality oriented services to its users, a VoD system requires usage of various resources like …

A video-on-demand (VOD) server needs to store hundreds of movie titles and to support
thousands of concurrent accesses. We define the'access profile'as the number of concurrent …

Advances in high-speed networks and multimedia technologies have made it feasible to
provide video-on-demand (VOD) services to users. However, it is still a challenging task to …

Full support for interactive VCR functions can be achieved only by dedicating a channel for
each customer. Unfortunately, channel dedication should not be used in a multicast video …

Advances in storage, compression, and network technology are making support for Video-
On-Demand applications feasible. Continuous and real time data needs of this application …

We propose an integrated memory and disk cache for managing the resources of a
multimedia client's computer or set-top box. The cache cushions the multimedia decoder …