Title :
Video-on-Demand Equipment Allocation
Author :
Thouin, Frederic ; Coates, Mark ; Goodwill, Dominic
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., McGill Univ., Montreal, Que.
Abstract :
Video-on-demand (VoD) service providers are intensely interested in transport, storage, streaming and caching in content delivery networks. Today\´s 5,000-hour library may grow toward the 750,000-hour "long tail" movie and TV-series catalog. We propose a method to calculate how much of a library should be cached. Much previous work focused on theoretical caching concepts, or the dynamics of cache filling and reclamation. Our method explicitly considers the impact of the available video server equipment; we present a VoD design tool comprising a novel cost function, hit ratio estimation and heuristic
Keywords :
cache storage; resource allocation; video on demand; video servers; video streaming; VoD design tool; caching concept; content delivery network; video server equipment; video-on-demand equipment allocation; Bandwidth; Cost function; Design methodology; Filling; Libraries; Motion pictures; Network servers; Scalability; Streaming media; TV broadcasting;
Conference_Titel :
Network Computing and Applications, 2006. NCA 2006. Fifth IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Cambridge, MA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2640-3
DOI :
10.1109/NCA.2006.56
