Performance of a mass storage system for video-on-demand

Author

Hsieh, Jenwei ; Lin, Mengjou ; Liu, Jonathan C L ; Du, David H C ; Ruwart, T.M.

Author_Institution

Adv. Technol. Group, Apple Comput. Inc., Cupertino, CA, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

2-6 Apr 1995

Firstpage

771

Abstract

Advancements in storage technology along with the fast deployment of high-speed networks has allowed the storage, transmission and manipulation of multimedia information such as text, graphics, still images, video and audio to be feasible. Our study focused on, the performance of the mass storage system for a large-scale video-on-demand server. Different video file striping schemes, such as application level striping and device driver level striping, were examined in order to study scalability and performance issues. To study the impact of different concurrent access patterns on the performance of a server, experimental results were obtained on group access on a single video file and multiple group accesses on multiple video files

Keywords

computer networks; digital storage; interactive video; multimedia communication; multimedia computing; network servers; performance evaluation; access patterns; application level striping; device driver level striping; group access; high-speed networks; mass storage system; multimedia computing; multiple group accesses; multiple video files; performance; scalability; single video file; storage technology; transmission; video file striping schemes; video-on-demand; Bandwidth; Computer networks; File servers; High performance computing; High-speed networks; Image storage; Large-scale systems; Multimedia computing; Network interfaces; Network servers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

INFOCOM '95. Fourteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Bringing Information to People. Proceedings. IEEE

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

ISSN

0743-166X

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6990-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INFCOM.1995.515946

Filename

515946