@conference {2867, title = {The Performance of Simple Queueing Theoretic Video On Demand Algorithms}, booktitle = {APPLIED INFORMATICS (AI 2000), Innsbruck, Austria}, year = {2000}, month = {14 - 17 February}, abstract = {Video On Demand (VOD) Systems comprise an emerging new technology, which is expected to significantly affect everyday life. The implementation of effective commercial VOD systems has to overcome some technical limitations, such as the low bandwidth offered by the existing communication channels. In our work we present some simple queuing theoretic algorithms for the optimal use of a limited number of communication channels keeping a fair policy for the users requests. We compare our algorithms with well-known algorithms, by means of simulation.}, author = {Christos Bouras and J Garofalakis and J Tzimas and P Petridis} }