Video On Demand. 1. VOD, Now and Future.

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

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 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...

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...