Title :
Design and implementation of a small VOD server
Author :
Kwon, Yeungmoon ; Ahn, Byoungchul
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Eng., Yeungnam Univ., Kyungsan, South Korea
Abstract :
The paper presents a design of a small VOD server that provides full VCR functions for clients. The design has been implemented on symmetrical multiprocessors equipped with four 150 MHz Pentium processors. The operating systems are Microsoft Windows NT for the server and Windows 95 for clients. The VOD server can control and schedule more than 50 video sessions using a priority scheduling method. It reads a MPEG-1 stream from disks and sends them to clients through the network. The performance of the server is discussed
Keywords :
client-server systems; interactive television; multimedia systems; multiprocessing systems; network servers; processor scheduling; 150 MHz; MPEG-1 stream reading; Microsoft Windows NT; Pentium processors; Windows 95; clients; disks; full VCR functions; operating systems; priority scheduling method; server performance; small VOD server design; symmetrical multiprocessors; video session control; video session scheduling; Costs; Hardware; Information retrieval; Libraries; Network servers; Processor scheduling; Quality of service; Streaming media; Video recording; Yarn;
Conference_Titel :
Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1997. 10 Years PACRIM 1987-1997 - Networking the Pacific Rim. 1997 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on
Conference_Location :
Victoria, BC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3905-3
DOI :
10.1109/PACRIM.1997.619913
