With the increasing cost-effectiveness of communication technologies, online shopping has
emerged as one of the most important areas of electronic commerce. A major problem facing …

An interactive video-on-demand (VoD) system allows users to access video services, such
as movies, electronic encyclopedia, interactive games, and educational videos from video …

In an on-demand video system, the video repository generally has limited streaming
capacities and may be far from the users. In order to achieve higher user capacity and lower …

With video-on-demand (VoD) regarded as one of the drivers for the deployment of
broadband integrated service digital networks (B-ISDNs), an important issue is how to …

Movies are distributed and stored within a movie on demand or near movie on demand
system having a number of levels of interconnectivity between and including at least one …

Recent advances in cable TV networks and multimedia technologies open the possibilities
for network/service/content providers to offer residential customers with video-on-demand …

In an on-demand video system, the repository servers storing all the video contents
generally have limited streaming capacities and may not be co-located with the users. To …

We propose and analyze a class of admission control algorithms based on reward
optimization for multimedia servers designed to provide on-demand services to clients in an …

Magnetic disks have established themselves as the mass storage device of choice for data
intensive applications, including video servers. These devices are mechanical in nature …

Video services are likely to dominate the traffic in future broadband networks. Most of these
services will be provided by large-scale public-access video servers. Research to date has …