Storage optimization for a peer-to-peer video-on-demand network
Jagadeesh M. Dyaberi, Karthik Kannan, Vijay S. Pai · 2010
This paper explores requirements for efficient pre-seeding of video-on-demand (VoD) movie data onto numerous customer set-top boxes in a cable ISP environment. The pre-seeded content will then be distributed to other set-top boxes in the same cable community using a peer-to-peer (P2P) network protocol such as BitTorrent. The challenges and solutions required for P2P VoD provided by a fixed provider such as a cable company are fundamentally different from those seen in traditional P2P networks or client-server VoD solutions.