Toward the direction of supporting an end-to-end video-on-demand (VOD) system with guaranteed quality over ATM networks, this paper introduces our eeorts to solve this challenging problem from the source: building VOD servers. One of the performance objectives of building VOD servers is to support the maximum number of concurrent video streams with acceptable quality of services (e.g., guarante...

During the past seven years, a number of advancements in hardware and software technology have led to novel applications of computers. The speed of processors has continued to increase. Gordon Moore, who predicted in the 70s that the speed of processors would double in every 18 months, has been proved right. In early 2005, Intel has announced a pentium processor with clock speed of 3.4 GHz. Sim...

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...