Video On Demand (VOD) service that allows users to select and watch video content is the most popular IPTV service and it is known that most of Internet traffic is for VOD service. It would be very attractive if a VOD service correctly recognizes the situation where the user wants to watch a video, finds out what video the user wants to watch, and actively plays the video for the user. Our VOD ...

Video sharing has been an increasingly popular application in online social networks (OSNs). However, its sustainable development is severely hindered by the intrinsic limit of the client/server architecture deployed in current OSN video systems, which is not only costly in terms of server bandwidth and storage but also not scalable with the soaring amount of users and video content. The peer-a...

The study investigates the nature and degree of influence range application usability variables on learning experience students at a specific institution higher education in Oman. was carried out via eDify implementation encompassing students. Literature does little to suggest aforementioned relationship context Omani education. current would reveal that are critical effective technology-based ...

A distributed video-on-demand system is one where a collection of video data is located at dispersed sites across a computer network. In a single-site environment, a local video server retrieves video data from its local storage device (or devices). However, in the setting of a distributed VoD system, when a customer requests a movie from his/her local server, the server may need to interact wi...

The eecient delivery of pre-recorded, compressed video plays an important role in a wide variety of emerging multimedia services. However, compressed video exhibits signiicant bursti-ness that complicates the transmission from the video server, transfer across the communication network, and playback at the client site. By capitalizing on buuer space at the client, the server can reduce transmis...

This study assesses the worst-case demand and replication models for determining the bandwidth required by the origin server when a number of video programs in a videoon-demand system are replicated on replica servers. The bandwidth required by the video-on-demand system determines the number of viewers that could watch video programs simultaneously. If a video program is viewed in its entirety...

Over the past decade, cloud computing services become pervasive in the industrial field in order to enhance the efficiency and reduce the TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) provides the computing environment to the client, where the host server delivers the video images encoded on the host server. The client decodes the video images and then displays them on the...

In streaming video applications, video sequences are encoded off-line and stored in a server. Users may access the server over a constant bit-rate channel such as Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) or Integrated Service Digital Network (ISDN). Examples of the streaming video are video on demand, archived video news, and non-interactive distance learning. Before the playback, part of the v...