Abstract:in P2P video-on-demand (VoD) streaming system, aggregate download bandwidth of users fluctuates significantly because of peer departure, bandwidth heterogeneity and network delay. The playback rate of videos also fluctuates in order to attain constant image quality. These two kinds of dynamics cause playback interruptions. Prefetching some video content before playback is an effective method to offset the adverse effect of dynamics. In this paper, we choose the number of interruptions in a viewing process as t… Show more
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