BibTeX for papers by David Kotz; for complete/updated list see https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/papers.html @TechReport{toh:thesis, author = {Song Bac Toh}, title = {{Simulation of a Video-on-Demand System}}, institution = {Dartmouth Computer Science}, year = 1995, month = {June}, number = {PCS-TR95-260}, copyright = {the author}, address = {Hanover, NH}, URL = {https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/toh-thesis/index.html}, note = {Available as Dartmouth Computer Science Technical Report PCS-TR95-260}, abstract = {This paper presents a simulation study of a video-on-demand system. The focus of the study is the effectiveness of different caching strategies on a video-on-demand system with two levels of cache, RAM and disks, in front of a tape library. Using an event-driven simulator, I show that caching was helpful in increasing the service capacity of the system. On-demand caching showed its advantages especially when the requests were clustered around a few popular titles (in other words, there was temporal locality).}, }