Content Delivery Through Hybrid Architecture in Video on Demand System
This addresses congestion issues for VOD systems, but appears incremental as it combines existing architectures without clear novel breakthroughs.
The paper tackled the problem of high load and congestion in Video on Demand (VOD) systems due to user requests and interactive operations, proposing a hybrid P2P and mesh architecture that enhances search and content transportation for smoother delivery.
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network needs architectural modification for smooth and fast transportation of video content. The viewer imports chunk video objects through the proxy server. The enormous growth of user requests in a small session of time creates huge load on the VOD system. The situation requires either the proxy server streamed video-content fully or partly to the viewers. The missing chunk at the proxy server is imported from the connected peer nodes. Peers exchange chunks among themselves according to some chunk selection policy. Peer node randomly contacts another peer to download a missing chunk from the buffers during each time slot. In video streaming, when the relevant frame is required at the viewer ends that should be available at the respective proxy server. The video watcher also initiates various types of interactive operations like a move forward or skips some finite number of frames that create congestion inside the VOD system. To elevate the situation it needs an effective content delivery mechanism for smooth transportation of content. The proposed hybrid architecture is composed of P2P and mesh architecture that effectively enhances the search mechanism and content transportation in the VOD system.