Patching has been shown to be cost efficient for video-on-demand systems. Unlike
conventional multicast, patching is a dynamic multicast scheme which enables a new …

Deployment of a large-scale multimedia streaming application requires an enormous
amount of server and network resources. The simplest delivery technique allocates server …

Many essential multimedia applications rely on video-on-demand technology to deliver a
video to different users. A number of periodic broadcast techniques have been proposed for …

The windows scheduling problem is defined by the positive integers n, h, and w 1,..., wn.
There are n pages where the window wi is associated with page i, and h is the number of …

Video-on-Demand is undoubtedly a promising technology for many important applications.
Several periodic broadcast techniques have been proposed for the cost-effective …

Technology has spurred the growth of huge image and video libraries, many growing into
the hundreds of terabytes. As a result there is a great demand among organizations for the …

As different types of wireless networks are converging into an all-IP network, ie, the Internet,
it can be expected that in the near future video-on-demand (VoD) will be widely applied to …

We consider the problem of minimizing the bandwidth needed by media-on-demand servers
that use stream merging. We consider the on-line case where client requests are not known …

Broadcasting popular media to clients is the ultimate scalable solution for media-on-
demand. Recently, it was shown that if clients can receive data at a rate faster than what they …

We address the problem of designing optimal off-line algorithms that minimize the required
bandwidth for media-on-demand systems that use stream merging. We concentrate on the …