Bandwidth aware load balancing and optimal bandwidth allocation techniques for Video-on-Demand systems

Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems are a category of adhoc multimedia services. To provide a quality oriented services to its users, a VoD system requires usage of various resources like bandwidth and disk space. As number of users increase the resources requirements do proportionally increase. Thus these resources are costly and important from QoS perspective. Hence efficient allocation and utilization of these resources are utmost important to enhance the performance of the VoD systems. This paper presents two novel strategies namely bandwidth aware load balancing and optimal bandwidth allocation.