Abstract
We study caching strategies for proxies that cache VBR-encoded continuous media objects for highly interactive streaming applications. First, we develop a model for streaming VBR-encoded continuous media objects. This model forms the basis for a stream admission control criterion and our study of caching strategies. We find that unlike conventional web caches, proxy caches for continuous media objects need to replicate or stripe objects to achieve high hit rates. We develop novel caching strategies that either implicitly or explicitly track the request pattern and cache (and replicate) objects accordingly. Our numerical results indicate that our caching strategies achieve significantly higher hit rates than caching without object replication.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 3-31 |
Number of pages | 29 |
Journal | Information Sciences |
Volume | 140 |
Issue number | 1-2 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2002 |
Keywords
- Caching
- Continuous media object
- Object replication
- Replacement policy
- Statistical QoS
- Streaming
- VBR video
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Software
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Theoretical Computer Science
- Computer Science Applications
- Information Systems and Management
- Artificial Intelligence