STREAM TAPPING: A SYSTEM FOR IMPROVING EFFICIENCY ON A VIDEO-ON-DEMAND SERVER
Steven W. Carter, Darrell D. E. Long · 1997
this report we present a new VOD system called stream tapping. Stream tapping allows clients to aggressively "tap" into any disk streams on the VOD server that are reading data the client can use. This can be accomplished through the use of a small buffer---as small as 115 MB for MPEG-1 encoding---on the client's set-top box, and it can save over 80% of the disk bandwidth used by a conventional system. This report includes a description and analysis of the stream tapping system, and comparisons between it and other efficiency-improving systems. Keywords: Video-on-Demand, efficiency, bandwidth y