A scalable video-on-demand system using multi-batch buffering

This paper describes performance degradation problems during interaction handling in several batched and centralized-buffer VoD systems. A new system, called multi-batch buffer (MBB) system is proposed. It attempts to solve these problems by employing scalable buffering techniques in the buffers of the local servers and the set-top boxes (STBs). We have performed extensive simulation for the analysis and performance evaluation of our proposed VoD system. The simulation results demonstrate that our VoD system is very scalable and outperforms related state-of-the-art VoD systems