Large scale distributed storage and search for a Video on Demand streaming system.

摘要

In the trend towards all IP networks, providing video services has proven to be challenging. The approaches taken by corporations mainly involve costly solutions, that are hard to manage and scale. If next generation service providers are to deliver high quality on-demand video streaming to a large audience, new higher layer methodologies need to be developed. The success of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) has opened an interesting research area on very diverse distributed applications that exploit their self-organizing, self-managing and self-healing nature.The objective of this thesis is to offer an effective P2P solution that targets Next Generation Video-on-Demand Service Providers' need for distributed storage. To address the challenges of low startup delay, provision of VCR commands, scalability and management of the system we propose a MultiLayered Hybrid P2P topology for the distribution of and search for content.