An admission control algorithm for providing quality-of-service guarantee for individual connection in a video-on-demand system.

by Xiaoqing Wang.Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 43-45).Abstracts in English and Chinese.Acknowledgments --- p.iiAbstract --- p.iiiChapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1Chapter 2 --- The General Architecture of the VoD System and the Related Issues --- p.4Chapter 2.1 --- A Brief Description of VoD System --- p.4Chapter 2.2 --- Why Video Streams in VoD Service are VBR in Nature? --- p.6Chapter 2.3 --- The Video Storage Media in the VoD Systems --- p.8Chapter 2.4 --- The Data Placement Scheme in the VoD System --- p.9Chapter 2.5 --- An Overview of Disk Scheduling in VoD System --- p.10Chapter 2.6 --- The Admission Control in VoD System --- p.12Chapter 3 --- Our Admission Control Algorithm for VoD System --- p.14Chapter 3.1 --- QoS Requirements We Choose --- p.14Chapter 3.2 --- System Model --- p.15Chapter 3.3 --- The Admission Control for the Storage Sub-system --- p.19Chapter 3.4 --- The Admission Control for Network Sub-system --- p.21Chapter 3.4.1 --- Preliminaries --- p.22Chapter 3.4.2 --- The Admission Control Algorithm for Network Sub-system --- p.27Chapter 4 --- Experiment --- p.33Chapter 5 --- Conclusion and Future Work --- p.41Chapter 5.1 --- Conclusion --- p.41Chapter 5.2 --- Future Work --- p.4