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Mo deling Design and Performance Evaluation of Interactive Distributed VideoonDemand Systems Constantinos Vassilakis Michael Paterakis and Peter Triantallou  Department of Electronics Computer Engineering Technical University of Crete and Multimedia Systems Institute of Crete MUSICTUC Chania GREECE Phone Email f cv pateraki gtelecomtucgr p etercedtucgr Abstract A large scale distributed videoondemand Technological Infrastructure VOD system allows geographicall y disp ersed residential and business users to access video services such as movies and Large scale delivery of multimedia services requires the re other multimedia programs or do cuments on demand from trieval from storage server devices and the delivery to the video servers on a high sp eed network In this pap er we users of huge amounts of time sensitive data The high demonstrate through analysis and simulation the need for a bandwidth requirements imp osed on the storage facilities hierarchical architecture for the videoondemand distribution together with the large numb er of multimedia programs networkWe assume a hierarchical architecture which ts the that must b e available to the users on demand make it existing tree top ology used in to days cable TV CATV hy necessary to provide a distribution network in which a brid b ercoaxial HFC distribution networks We develop a numb er of video server