Multimedia servers-design and performance

Author

Ghafir, Hatem ; Chadwick, Henry

Author_Institution

IBM Corp., Bethesda, MD, USA

Volume

2

fYear

1994

fDate

28 Nov- 2 Dec 1994

Firstpage

886

Abstract

Examines multimedia servers that are used to store and play back large quantities of data for a large number of simultaneous users. Data files tend to be very long and are presented in the form of streams which must be maintained in synchronism with the display. The authors describe a generalized multimedia server architecture which consists of a distributed network of storage elements, control elements and network interface elements interconnected with a wideband switch fabric. They then describe a number of strategies for allocating video files to the storage elements in this server architecture and present the results of computer simulations describing the performance of the server under different assumptions of user demand

Keywords

computer interfaces; file servers; interactive systems; interactive television; multimedia communication; network interfaces; telecommunication equipment; computer simulations; control elements; data files; design; distributed network; generalized multimedia server architecture; multimedia servers; network interface elements; performance; storage elements; synchronisation; user demand; video files; video on demand; wideband switch fabric; Computer architecture; Computer simulation; Displays; Fabrics; File servers; Network interfaces; Network servers; Streaming media; Switches; Wideband;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1994. GLOBECOM '94. Communications: The Global Bridge., IEEE

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1820-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1994.512722

Filename

512722