Accelerated Chaining: A Better Way to Harness Peer Power in Video-on-Demand Applications

Appeared in Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.

Abstract

We present a more efficient chaining protocol for video-on- \demand applications. Chaining protocols require each client to forward the video data it receives to the next client watching the same video. Unlike all extant chaining protocols, our protocol requires these clients to forward these data at a rate slightly higher than the video consumption rate. Our simulations indicate that increasing the client video forwarding rate by 5 percent is sufficient to virtually eliminate the server workload for a two-hour video when request arrival rates remain above 30 requests per hour.

Publication date:
March 2011

Authors:
Jehan-François Pâris
Ahmed Amer
Darrell D. E. Long

Projects:
Individualized Peer-to-peer Reputation

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Bibtex entry

@inproceedings{SAC-Paris-2011,
  author       = {Jehan-François Pâris and Ahmed Amer and Darrell D. E. Long},
  title        = {Accelerated Chaining: A Better Way to Harness Peer Power in Video-on-Demand Applications},
  booktitle    = {Proceedings of the Twenty-sixth ACM Symposium on Applied Computing},
  month        = mar,
  year         = {2011},
}