Some roughly ideas Literature review of caching, and segmentation of video A more generally perspective might be useful, Look at it from a content node perspective, a CDN perspective, and even a user's perspective... What happens when we serve many files at once. Paint a whole picture. This would make a good collection of work for Andrew's Ph D? which could be titled “How do you pre-fetch interactive media in CDNs”. which would include work on how to adapt to different workloads. Competing media and competing workloads.