BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0
ID:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR95-260
ENTRY:: June 12, 1995
ORGANIZATION:: Dartmouth College, Computer Science
TITLE:: Simulation of a Video-on-Demand System
TYPE:: Technical Report (paper)
REVISION:: 1
AUTHOR:: Toh, Song Bac
DATE:: June 1995	
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, email <reports@cs.dartmouth.edu>
RETRIEVAL:: For a paper copy, write to
       Technical Report Librarian
       Department of Computer Science
       Dartmouth College
       6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
       Hanover, NH 03755-3510
       USA
RETRIEVAL:: Compressed Postscript at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR95-260.ps.Z
RETRIEVAL:: PDF at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/reports/TR95-260.pdf
ABSTRACT:: This paper presents a simulation study of a
video-on-demand system.  The focus of the study is the effectiveness
of different caching strategies on a video-on-demand system with two
levels of cache, RAM and disks, in front of a tape library.  Using an
event-driven simulator, I show that caching was helpful in increasing
the service capacity of the system.  On-demand caching showed its
advantages especially when the requests were clustered around a few
popular titles (in other words, there was temporal locality). 
NOTE:: 
A Senior Honors Thesis in Computer Science.
END:: ncstrl.dartmouthcs//TR95-260