Abstract
Proxy servers have been used to cache web objects to alleviate the load of the web servers and to reduce network congestion on the Internet. In this paper, a central video server is connected to a proxy server via wide area networks (WANs) and the proxy server can reach many clients via local area networks (LANs). We assume a video can be either entirely or partially cached in the proxy to reduce WAN bandwidth consumption. Since the storage space and the sustained disk I/O bandwidth are limited resources in the proxy, how to efficiently utilize these resources to maximize the WAN bandwidth reduction is an important issue. We design a progressive video caching policy in which each video can be cached at several levels corresponding to cached data sizes and required WAN bandwidths. For a video, the proxy server determines to cache a smaller amount of data at a lower level or to gradually accumulate more data to reach a higher level. The proposed progressive caching policy allows the proxy to adjust caching amount for each video based on its resource condition and the user access pattern. We investigate the scenarios in which the access pattern is priorly known or unknown and the effectiveness of the caching policy is evaluated.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 599-610 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | IEEE Transactions on Multimedia |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Aug 2004 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Manuscript received December 3, 2001; revised July 18, 2002. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grants CMS-0086602 and EIA-0224424, and by the Digital Technology Center Intelligent Storage Consortium.The associate editor coordinating the review of this paper and approving it for publication was Dr. Shue-Lee Chang.
Keywords
- Caching policy, progressive video caching
- Proxy server
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