A cooperative and incentive-based proxy-and-client caching system for on-demand media streaming.

• Other Authors: Ip, Tak Shun.
• Format: Others
• Language: English; Chinese
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Cache memory; Peer-to-peer architecture (Computer networks); Client/server computing; Streaming technology (Telecommunications)
• Online Access: http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892574; http://repository.lib.cuhk.edu.hk/en/item/cuhk-325259

Ip Tak Shun. === Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2005. === Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-101). === Abstracts in English and Chinese. === Abstract --- p.i === Acknowledgement --- p.iv === Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 === Chapter 1.1 --- Background --- p.1 === Chapter 1.1.1 --- Media Streaming --- p.1 === Chapter 1.1.2 --- Incentive Mechanism --- p.2 === Chapter 1.2 --- Cooperative and Incentive-based Proxy-and-Client Caching --- p.4 === Chapter 1.2.1 --- Cooperative Proxy-and-Client Caching --- p.4 === Chapter 1.2.2 --- Revenue-Rewarding Mechanism --- p.5 === Chapter 1.3 --- Thesis Contribution --- p.6 === Chapter 1.4 --- Thesis Organization --- p.7 === Chapter 2 --- Related Work --- p.9 === Chapter 2.1 --- Media Streaming --- p.9 === Chapter 2.2 --- Incentive Mechanism --- p.11 === Chapter 2.3 --- Resource Pricing --- p.14 === Chapter 3 --- Cooperative Proxy-and-Client Caching --- p.16 === Chapter 3.1 --- Overview of the COPACC System --- p.16 === Chapter 3.2 --- Optimal Cache Allocation (CAP) --- p.21 === Chapter 3.2.1 --- Single Proxy with Client Caching --- p.21 === Chapter 3.2.2 --- Multiple Proxies with Client Caching --- p.24 === Chapter 3.2.3 --- Cost Function with Suffix Multicast --- p.26 === Chapter 3.3 --- Cooperative Proxy-Client Caching Protocol --- p.28 === Chapter 3.3.1 --- Cache Allocation and Organization --- p.29 === Chapter 3.3.2 --- Cache Lookup and Retrieval --- p.30 === Chapter 3.3.3 --- Client Access and Integrity Verification --- p.30 === Chapter 3.4 --- Performance Evaluation --- p.33 === Chapter 3.4.1 --- Effectiveness of Cooperative Proxy and Client Caching --- p.34 === Chapter 3.4.2 --- Robustness --- p.37 === Chapter 3.4.3 --- Scalability and Control Overhead --- p.38 === Chapter 3.4.4 --- Sensitivity to Network Topologies --- p.40 === Chapter 4 --- Revenue-Rewarding Mechanism --- p.43 === Chapter 4.1 --- System Model --- p.44 === Chapter 4.1.1 --- System Overview --- p.44 === Chapter 4.1.2 --- System Formulation --- p.47 === Chapter 4.2 --- Resource Allocation Game --- p.50 === Chapter 4.2.1 --- Non-Cooperative Game --- p.50 === Chapter 4.2.2 --- Profit Maximizing Game --- p.52 === Chapter 4.2.3 --- Utility Maximizing Game --- p.61 === Chapter 4.3 --- Performance Evaluation --- p.74 === Chapter 4.3.1 --- Convergence --- p.76 === Chapter 4.3.2 --- Participation Incentive --- p.77 === Chapter 4.3.3 --- Cost effectiveness --- p.85 === Chapter 5 --- Conclusion --- p.87 === Chapter A --- NP-Hardness of the CAP problem --- p.90 === Chapter B --- Optimality of the Greedy Algorithm --- p.92 === Bibliography --- p.95