In typical proposals for video-on-demand (VoD) systems, customers are serviced
individually by allocating and dedicating a transmission channel and a set of server …

Periodic broadcasting can be used to support near video on demand for popular videos. For
a given bandwidth allocation, pyramid broadcasting schemes substantially reduce the …

Two recent techniques for multicast or broadcast delivery of streaming media can provide
immediate service to each client request, yet achieve considerable client stream sharing …

The simplest video-on-demand (VOD) delivery policy is to allocate a new media delivery
stream to each client request when it arrives. This policy has the desirable properties of …

This paper proposes a new technique for on-demand delivery of streaming media. The idea
is to hold in reserve, orskim', a portion of the client reception bandwidth that is sufficiently …

The server's storage I/O and network I/O bandwidths are the main bottleneck of VoD service.
Multicast offers an efficient means of distributing a video program to multiple clients, thus …

A true video-on-demand (VoD) system lets users view any video program, at any time, and
perform any VCR-like user interactions. To reduce the per-user video delivery cost, multiple …

A critical issue in the performance of a video-on-demand system is the I/O bandwidth
required in order to satisfy client requests. A number of techniques have been proposed in …

A closed-loop (demand-driven) approach toward video-on-demand services, called
multicast cache (Mcache), is discussed. Servers use multicast to reduce their bandwidth …

This paper presents and evaluates Toast, a scalable Video-on-Demand (VoD) streaming
system that combines the popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P) file-transfer technology with …