Video On Demand. 2. VOD Services and System Requirements.

Efficient Video on Demand (VoD) Services in Broadcast Environments

This thesis addresses the issue of reliable media delivery over broadcast channels. Sophisticated Video-on-Demand (VoD) broadcasting schemes based on Harmonic Broadcasting (HB) and Pyramidal Broadcasting (PB) allow receivers to tune into the ongoing transmission session of a video-stream at arbitrary time, while still being able to receive the multimedia sequence from the beginning and in compl...

Video Management in Commercial Distributed Video on Demand (VoD) Systems

Video on Demand over ATM: System Design and Networking Requirements

In recent years there has been a strong interest in transmitting compressed Video over ATM. Previous work has dealt with transmitting MPEG over CBR and VBR services of ATM. The ABR service of ATM is expected to be much more cost eeective than CBR or VBR. There has been a limited amount of work done in transmitting video over ABR. However, there hasn't been much work done on running client/serve...

Video Placement, Distributed Load balancing and Buffer Management Policy for Video-on-Demand (VoD) Systems

As computer and network technology advance, multimedia data can be transferred in real time on the internet. The increasing user demands for various multimedia data make VoD (video on demand) services to be developed. Video on demand (VoD) services are being used in lots of fields such as entertainment, distant learning, home shopping, and interactive news. Video-on-Demand (VoD) has been gainin...

A Novel Caching Strategy in Video-on-Demand (VoD) Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Networks Based on Complex Network Theory

The popularity of video-on-demand (VoD) streaming has grown dramatically over the World Wide Web. Most users in VoD P2P networks have to wait a long time in order to access their requesting videos. Therefore, reducing waiting time to access videos is the main challenge for VoD P2P networks. In this paper, we propose a novel algorithm for caching video based on peers' priority and video's popula...