DVS: a system for distribution and management of global video on demand services

Author

Roytman, Alexey ; Ben-Shaul, Israel ; Cidon, Israel

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Technion-Israel Inst. of Technol., Haifa, Israel

Volume

2

fYear

1999

fDate

36342

Firstpage

343

Abstract

The Distributed Video Service (DVS) system provides a comprehensive solution for the management and distribution of global video on demand. DVS presents a scalable architecture that combines the global accessibility of the Internet with an acceptable quality of service through an optional private high-speed backbone, and by distributing movies off-line to servers that are closer to potential viewers. To cope with dynamic changes in movie demand and server load, DVS employs adaptive algorithms for server selection and for movie distribution. DVS was implemented in Java, integrated with a front-end playing software, and supports IP and ATM as the public and private networks, respectively

Keywords

Internet; Java; asynchronous transfer mode; multimedia communication; quality of service; transport protocols; video on demand; video servers; ATM; DVS; Distributed Video Service; IP; Internet; Java; adaptive algorithms; front-end playing software; global video on demand services; movie distribution; private high-speed backbone; private networks; public networks; quality of service; scalable architecture; server load; server selection; video servers; Adaptive algorithm; Java; Motion pictures; Network servers; Quality of service; Spine; Video on demand; Voltage control; Web and internet services; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Florence

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0253-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1999.778427

Filename

778427