Video-over-IP applications have recently attracted a large number of users on the Internet.
Traditional client-server based video streaming solutions incur expensive bandwidth …

We investigate a novel multicast technique, called Skyscraper Broadcasting (SB), for video-
on-demand applications. We discuss the data fragmentation technique, the broadcasting …

In a video-on-demand environment, continuous delivery of video streams to the clients is
guaranteed by sufficient reserved network and server resources. This leads to a hard limit on …

Due to the technical developments in electronics the amount of digital content is
continuously increasing. In order to make digital content respectively multimedia content …

Gives constant approximations for a number of layered network design problems. We begin
by modeling hierarchical caching, where the caches are placed in layers and each layer …

We propose and evaluate the performance of a multicast technique, called controlled CIWP
for supplying video-on-demand services. Similar to batching schemes, controlled CIWP …

This paper describes MiddleMan, a collection of cooperating proxy servers connected by a
local area network (LAN). MiddleMan differs from existing proxy research in that it …

The server's storage I/O and network I/O bandwidths are the main bottleneck of VoD service.
Multicast offers an efficient means of distributing a video program to multiple clients, thus …

Large scale video-on-demand systems require that the servers offering the video retrieval
and playback services are arranged as a distributed system in order to support a large …

In this paper, we address the problem of minimizing the cost of transferring a document or a
file requested by a set of users geographically separated on a network of nodes. We …