Abstract:Abstract-Video on Demand (VoD) services allow users to select and locally consume remotely stored content. We investigate the use of caching to solve the scalability issues of several existing VoD providers. We propose metrics and goals that define the requirements of a caching framework for CDNs of VoD systems. Using data logs collected from Motorola equipment from Comcast VoD deployments we show that several classic caching solutions do not satisfy the proposed goals. We address this issue by developing a no… Show more
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