Can internet video-on-demand be profitable?

Scalable internet video-on-demand systems

In this thesis on Scalable Internet Video-on-Demand Systems solutions are provided that allow scalable streaming in today’s Internet. These solutions allow the optimization of existing Videoon-Demand applications, as well as the integration of new mechanisms in the video streaming area. With the increasing popularity of video and audio data in packet switched networks and the lack of quality of...

Video On-demand Streaming on the Internet—a Survey

Video-on-demand (VoD) streaming applications have evolved into one of the most popular types of applications on the Internet over the past decade. A great amount of research has been conducted to address the high bandwidth and stringent delay requirements of VoD applications on the video servers and the Internet. In this paper, we provide a broad survey of existing schemes and classify them int...

Online advertising – can it be both pleasant and profitable ?

Peer-to-Peer Video-On- Demand in Future Internet

Have you noticed how fast Internet traffic is growing lately? It is an amazing statistic for those who havenot. If you just go about your way of hooking up with the Internet and send emails, read news, chat, watch YouTube videos, and interact with your e-buddies on social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, get ready to be surprised. The volume of the Internet traffic increased eight times t...

Dimensioning internet protocol television video on demand services

The Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) subscription rate has increased steadily since the introduction of IPTV Video on Demand (VoD) services. We have developed a model to determine the optimum deployment strategy for delivering IPTV VoD network services from the IPTV service providers’ perspective. The analysis technique in this paper helps us determine how to support a particular IPTV VoD de...