The SPIFFI Scalable Video-on-Demand System

Summary: Simulation-based evaluation of SPIFFI, a scalable video-on-demand system, targeting real-time disk scheduling, prefetching, and buffer pool management. Declustering videos across many disks; comparisons against elevator/round-robin and LRU; novel buffer-replacement and prefetching schemes achieving near-linear scaling with disks, videos, and terminals. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2875
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 5.093636e-05
Overall Rank: 12,995 | 10.85%
DOI: 10.1145/223784.223851

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Authors

1. Craig S. Freedman (University of Wisconsin)
2. David J. DeWitt (University of Wisconsin)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{freedman_sigmod95,
        title = {{The SPIFFI Scalable Video-on-Demand System}},
        author = {Freedman, Craig S. and DeWitt, David J.},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '95},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/223784.223851},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/223784.223851},
        year = {1995}
}

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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,164	Staggered Striping in Multimedia Information Systems	1994	SIGMOD	0.00011865074
2,819	Priority in DBMS Resource Scheduling	1989	VLDB	8.0922349e-05
3,537	A Low-Cost Storage Server for Movie on Demand Databases	1994	VLDB	7.328862e-05
7,946	Oracle Media Server: Providing Consumer Based Interactive Access to Multimedia Data	1994	SIGMOD	5.5181056e-05

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