Efficient Mobile Video-on-Demand with Hand-off Support

ABSTRACT 
Because of the varied capabilities of servers and clients in terms of resources and processing 
complexity, no Video-on-Demand (VoD) technique can provide efficient  and absolute 
solutions in all circumstances. The popular factor of videos is a challenging issue to be kept 
in mind in order to minimize the resource utilization of VoD system,  thereby enhancing the 
quality of the service and gaining user satisfaction. To use the popularity details of the videos 
of a VoD service and allocate necessary amount of resources, there  are many  schemes that 
have been proposed but most of them are short of successfully managing all the elements of 
the service. Hence, we  have  proposed a new scheme that  is expected to  bring noticeable 
improvement in the service. To be more specific, the scheme minimizes the user"s waiting 
time and also successfully handles the hand-off procedure for a moving client during 
downloading a video segment providing efficient service to clients.