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Towards cinematic internet video-on-demand

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Zheng ZhangAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 42, Issue 4

Pages 109 - 122

https://doi.org/10.1145/1357010.1352605

Published: 01 April 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Video-on-demand (VoD) is increasingly popular with Internet users. It gives users greater choice and more control than live streaming or file downloading. Systems such as MSN Video and YouTube deliver content at low bitrates. This may suit short clips, but great films and 5-minute bloopers are as different as symphonies and jingles. For cinema, poor quality and high jitter are less acceptable. Combining user control with high bitrate is compelling, but technically challenging.

VoD is expensive due to the load it places on video source servers. Many researchers have proposed using peer-to-peer (P2P) techniques to shift load from sources to peers (peer-assistance), yet none have implemented and deployed a system with the first purpose of openly and systematically evaluating this approach. To fill this void, we have built and deployed GridCast¹. GridCast doubles the bitrates of current popular internet VoD systems, provides a full set of VCR² operations, and employs peer-assistance to improve scalability and continuity. GridCast has been live on CERNET³ since May of 2006. In peak months, GridCast has served videos to approximately 23,000 users. From the beginning, we have gathered information to understand GridCast and improve its algorithms.

This paper introduces and evaluates GridCast. In May of 2007, we deployed multivideo caching, a major change to the caching algorithms. This paper analyzes scalability and continuity before and after this change. Our results contain several surprises and underline the importance of deployment to validate simulation results. We discuss what improvements can be developed beyond multivideo caching.

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Index Terms

Towards cinematic internet video-on-demand
1. Networks
  1. Network services
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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Reviews

Reviewer: Dana Petcu

Cheng et al. describe and discuss GridCast, a video-on-demand system, online since 2006. This system employs peer assistance to improve scalability and continuity. This approach allows GridCast to improve the bit rates, compared with the most popular video-on-demand systems. Special attention is given to scalability and continuity issues arising from the implementation of a multi-video caching technique, one year after the system launch. The experimental results show that the multi-video caching implementation improves both scalability and continuity over single-video caching. I recommend this paper to specialists in peer-to-peer, video-on-demand, or caching techniques. The peer management description is particularly useful, considering that applying peer-to-peer technology to video-on-demand is not yet done on a large scale. This well-described model of a peer-assisted video-on-demand system can be the foundation of new implementations of similar systems. Online Computing Reviews Service

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ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review Volume 42, Issue 4

EuroSys '08

May 2008

321 pages

ISSN:0163-5980

DOI:10.1145/1357010

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Eurosys '08: Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2008
April 2008
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DOI:10.1145/1352592
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