Multimedia-friendly server and communication design

Author

Shin, Kang ; Abdelzaher, Tarek ; Han, Seungjae ; Reumann, John ; Abram-Profeta, Emmanuel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Volume

6

Issue

2

fYear

1999

Firstpage

84

Lastpage

90

Abstract

We report on a set of projects to: design, implement, and evaluate software frameworks for providing performance assurances in emerging Internet services and real-time applications with a focus on multimedia; and design and evaluate video-on-demand (VOD) servers as an application. First we describe the Adaptware project, which investigates adaptive software for server platforms. A complementary project addresses reliable transmission of QoS-sensitive data over packet switched networks. Together, these two prongs compose an end-to-end approach to achieving flexible QoS guarantees for future Internet applications. We discuss VOD servers as a potential application of this two-pronged approach

Keywords

Internet; multimedia servers; packet switching; quality of service; real-time systems; video on demand; video servers; Adaptware project; Internet; adaptive software; communication design; multimedia-friendly server; packet switched networks; performance assurance; quality of service; real-time applications; software frameworks; video-on-demand servers; Computer buffers; Contracts; Insulation; Network servers; Operating systems; Processor scheduling; Resource management; Sockets; Web server; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

MultiMedia, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1070-986X

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/93.771377

Filename

771377