DESCRIPTION OF THE PRIOR ART It is Widely believed that the advances in technology
Will enable residential and commercial interactive multimedia services. The contemplated …

In an on-demand video server environment, clients make requests for movies to a
centralized video server. Due to the stringent response time requirements, continuous …

In a video-on-demand environment, continuous delivery of video streams to the clients is
guaranteed by sufficient reserved network and server resources. This leads to a hard limit on …

In a video server environment, some video objects (eg, movies) are very large and are read
sequentially. Hence it is not economical to cache the entire object. However, caching …

Video-on-demand servers are characterized by stringent real-time constraints, as each
stream requires isochronous data playout. The capacity of the system depends on the …

This paper describes MiddleMan, a collection of cooperating proxy servers connected by a
local area network (LAN). MiddleMan differs from existing proxy research in that it …

In order to guarantee continuous delivery of a video stream in an on-demand video server
environment, a collection of resources (referred to as a logical channel) are reserved in …

Large scale video-on-demand systems require that the servers offering the video retrieval
and playback services are arranged as a distributed system in order to support a large …

In a video-on-demand server, resource reservation is required to guarantee continuous
delivery. Hence any given storage device (or a striping group treated as a single logical …

In a video-on-demand server, resource reservation is needed for continuous delivery.
Hence, any given server can serve only a fixed maximum of clients. Different videos can be …