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In spite of predictions to the contrary, video on demand service has yet to be-come a significant channel for distribution of audiovisual entertainment to consumers’ homes. The main reason for the delay in development in this market can be attributed to a lack of cost-efficient distribution channels for this type of transmissions. In this work, we examine the quality of service requirements for delivery of video on demand services and develop a new measure of bandwidth requirements for this type of network transmissions. A limited simulation experiment is performed with which we derive the overlay bandwidth requirements for a single movie stream viewed simultaneously by multiple consumers with randomly distributed starting times. We conclude that video on demand service can be offered at reasonable quality of service with relatively modest overlay network transmission capacity requirements.
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Kalvenes, J., Keon, N. (2003). Efficient Bandwidth in Multimedia Distribution Networks with Guaranteed Quality of Service. In: Anandalingam, G., Raghavan, S. (eds) Telecommunications Network Design and Management. Operations Research/Computer Science Interfaces Series, vol 23. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3762-2_16
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