Abstract:Abstract. In this paper we explore the potential of a VoD system that is based on a paradigm that has been recently proposed: that of combining many distributed servers to handle the delivery of each requested media. When faced with a system comprised of N servers and M clients, the problems to be addressed are: (i) how to split the delivery task among different servers and (ii) how to pair clients and servers, the objective being to minimize the access time of the clients. To this end, we present an analytica… Show more
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