Abstract
In this paper, we consider a theoretical framework for performing admission control in a video-on-demand (VOD) system. Unlike previous work on the admission control on VOD system guaranteed quality-of-service (QoS) on the aggregated traffic, our admission control algorithm can guarantee the QoS requirements of individual connections. The QoS requirements consider in this paper are the individual connection's bandwidth and the individual connection's packet dropping rate. Users specify these two QoS requirements and our admission control algorithm will decide whether to admit a new request or not.