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@inproceedings{citeulike:2238597, abstract = {Video-on-demand in the Internet has become an immensely popular service in recent years. But due to its high bandwidth requirements and popularity, it is also a costly service to provide. We consider the design and potential benefits of peer-assisted video-on-demand, in which participating peers assist the server in delivering VoD content. The assistance is done in such a way that it provides the same user quality experience as pure client-server distribution. We focus on the single-video approach, whereby a peer only redistributes a video that it is currently watching.}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, author = {Huang, Cheng and Li, Jin and Ross, Keith W.}, booktitle = {SIGCOMM '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications}, citeulike-article-id = {2238597}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1282396}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1282380.1282396}, doi = {10.1145/1282380.1282396}, isbn = {978-1-59593-713-1}, keywords = {performance, vod}, location = {Kyoto, Japan}, pages = {133--144}, posted-at = {2009-10-29 07:35:48}, priority = {2}, publisher = {ACM}, title = {Can internet video-on-demand be profitable?}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1282380.1282396}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2238597 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2238597 N2 - Video-on-demand in the Internet has become an immensely popular service in recent years. But due to its high bandwidth requirements and popularity, it is also a costly service to provide. We consider the design and potential benefits of peer-assisted video-on-demand, in which participating peers assist the server in delivering VoD content. The assistance is done in such a way that it provides the same user quality experience as pure client-server distribution. We focus on the single-video approach, whereby a peer only redistributes a video that it is currently watching. CY - Kyoto, Japan SN - 978-1-59593-713-1 AD - New York, NY, USA EP - 144 TI - Can internet video-on-demand be profitable? PB - ACM T2 - SIGCOMM '07: Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications SP - 133 KW - performance KW - vod AU - Huang, Cheng AU - Li, Jin AU - Ross, Keith PY - 2007/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1282380.1282396 ER -