Patching: a multicast technique for true video-on-demand services
MULTIMEDIA '98 Proceedings of the sixth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Promoting the use of end-to-end congestion control in the Internet
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
MULTIMEDIA '01 Proceedings of the ninth ACM international conference on Multimedia
Selecting among replicated batching video-on-demand servers
NOSSDAV '02 Proceedings of the 12th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Yima: Design and Evaluation of a Streaming Media System for Residential Broadband Services
DBTel '01 Proceedings of the VLDB 2001 International Workshop on Databases in Telecommunications II
A New Asynchronous Hybrid Mechanism for Video on Demand
EUROMICRO '03 Proceedings of the 29th Conference on EUROMICRO
Two Hybrid Multicast Algorithms for Optimizing Resources in a Distributed VoD System
MMM '04 Proceedings of the 10th International Multimedia Modelling Conference
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Implementing reliable Video on Demand (VoD) systems over the Internet, which is inherently best-effort, is a challenge. Distributed streaming for Video on Demand addresses this challenge with a combination of two techniques. The first, Distributed Video Streaming using Multicast (DVSM) involves video streaming from multiple servers to overcome path congestion by exploiting path diversity. The second technique, Asynchronous Hybrid mechanism for Video on Demand, implements a segmentation-based periodic broadcast to effectively utilize network bandwidth and decrease latency. The combination involves devising new algorithms for bandwidth estimation, segment partitioning and scheduling. A simulation of our proposed solution demonstrates its effectiveness. Specifically the results show, the prompt reaction of our strategy to congestion, and, the effect the various parameters have on system performance. The results shed light on parameters that can be fine-tuned for an effective VoD system.