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Table 9.1 Summary of design choices studied by various researchers

Video distribution Server striping Video delivery Server fault

Researchers architecture policy protocol tolerance

Biersack et al.
(Video Server
Array)

proxy-at-client time striping server push striping w/

parity; FEC

Bolosky et al. (Tiger
Video Fileserver)

proxy-at-client space striping server push mirroring with

declustering

Buddhikot et al.
(MARS)

independent proxy time striping server push -

Freedman et al.
(SPIFFI)

proxy-at-client space striping - -

Lee et al. (Server
Array and RAIS)

proxy-at-client space striping client pull striping w/

parity; FEC
and PRT

Lougher et al. independent proxy space striping - -

Reddy et al. proxy-at-server,

independent proxy

space striping server push -

Tewari et al.
(clustered video
server)

proxy-at-server,
independent proxy

space striping server push -

Wu and Shu proxy-at-server,

independent proxy

space striping and
time striping

server push -

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