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Client-Caching Algorithms in a Video-on-Demand System

Ma et al., 1997

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Document ID
3242941271119666489
Author
Ma D
Alonso G
Publication year
Publication venue
HERMES-ESPRIT Long Term Research Project

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A growing number of applications need access to video data (eg, video-on-demand, digital library, multimedia messaging). As a result, the load on continuous media servers responsible for the storage and retrieval of videos, either from disks or from tertiary storage …
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