Home Boxes support for an efficient Video on Demand distribution

Soraya Ait Chellouche (1) , Willy Aubry (1, 2) , Daniel Négru (1) , Yiping Chen (1)

1 LaBRI - Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique
2 IMS - Laboratoire de l'intégration, du matériau au système

Video-on-Demand (VoD) streaming services have already acquired high popularity, which places hard requirements on Future Internet in terms of server and network bandwidth. Service scalability becomes then a crucial issue for which the server replication is the commonly used solution. However, this technique brings new challenges such as the server placement or the server selection. This paper presents an enhanced service oriented architecture with a new Home-Box layer that aims to provide a platform for efficient VoD streaming service. A popularity-based video contents placement in Home-Boxes and a two-steps end-users' requests redirection are also proposed and evaluated through simulation. The results confirm the promising aspects that motivate the considering of the Home-Box node in the video delivery chain.

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Soraya Ait Chellouche, Willy Aubry, Daniel Négru, Yiping Chen. Home Boxes support for an efficient Video on Demand distribution. IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 2011, Jul 2011, Barcelona, Spain. pp.Page(s): 1 - 6 ISSN : 1945-7871 E-ISBN : 978-1-61284-349-0 Print ISBN: 978-1-61284-348-3 INSPEC Acce, ⟨10.1109/ICME.2011.6012245⟩. ⟨hal-00878332⟩