| 摘要 |
Methods and systems for retrieving content fragments stored in a distributed storage and retrieval system comprising a plurality of storage-and-computing elements. One method comprising, for each content fragment: determining the storage element type that stores the content fragment; determining a first storage-and-computing element physical address from which to retrieve the content fragment; and retrieving the content fragment from the storage-and-computing element located at the first physical address. Then repeating the retrieving of the content fragments, utilizing approximately the maximum available downlink bandwidth, until a minimal streaming buffer required for enabling the playing of a streaming or progressive download content is filled.
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