In Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Video-on-Demand (VoD) streaming systems, supporting free VCR operations is challenging. Prefetching is a good way to improve user experience of VCR interactivity. But most existing P2P VoD prefetching schemes are proposed aimed at those popular videos with large amount of log data, without considering the situation that the videos are unpopular or the popular videos are in their initial phase of release. In this situation, these schemes cannot support user VCR interactivity very well. To address this issue, we propose a new optimized prefetching scheme, called Hybrid Anchor Scheme (HAS), in which fixed anchors and dynamic anchors are merged together. The dynamic anchors are generated based on association rule and segments popularity. Through combining the way of sequential prefetching according to weight of segments and the way of several rounds prefetching, we implement HAS effectively. Extensive simulations validate the proposed prefetching scheme provide shorter seeking latency compared to other prefetching schemes.
Improved caching for HTTP-based Video on Demand using Scalable Video Coding