Efficiency is essential for Video-on-Demand (VOD) to be successful. Conventional VOD servers are inefficient; they dedicate a disk stream for each client, quickly using up all ava...
In this paper we have proposed a dynamic buffer allocation algorithm for the prefix, based on the popularity of the videos. More cache blocks are allocated for most popular videos...
Recent techniques for multicast or broadcast delivery of streaming media can provide immediate service to each client request yet achieve considerable client stream sharing (i.e.,...
Continuity of stream playback is the crucial constraint in designing a continuous media server. From a distributed memory architectural model developed earlier, we found that ther...
— TCP-Friendly Rate Control (TFRC) is being adopted in Internet standards for congestion control of various streaming media applications. In this paper, we consider the transmiss...