Considering User Behavior and Multiple QoS Supports in Multimedia Streaming Caching

  • Authors:

  • Taeseok Kim;Hyokyung Bahn;Kern Koh

  • Affiliations:

  • School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea 151-742;Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ewha University, Seoul, South Korea 120-750;School of Computer Science and Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea 151-742

  • Venue:
  • Journal of VLSI Signal Processing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

With the prevalence of video-on-demand (VOD) services as well as the diffusion of various multimedia devices, caching in a multimedia streaming server is becoming increasingly important. However, due to some peculiar characteristics of multimedia objects and user activities in streaming services, design of an efficient caching system becomes a more challenging problem compared to the traditional caching systems. This paper discusses some important issues that are of interest in the domain of multimedia streaming caching and presents a new cache management scheme for multimedia streaming servers. Our new scheme considers different streaming rates of multimedia objects as well as the inter-arrival time between two consecutive requests on an identical object. It also considers user activities in requesting and playing multimedia contents. Trace-driven simulations with real world VOD traces show that the proposed scheme improves the performance of multimedia streaming systems significantly.