The minimum reservation rate problem in digital audio/video systems

Author

Megiddo, Nimrod ; Naor, Moni ; Anderson, David P.

Author_Institution

Almaden Res. Center, IBM, San Jose, CA, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

7-9 Jun 1993

Firstpage

43

Lastpage

48

Abstract

The minimum reservation rate problem arises in distributed systems for handling digital audio and video data. The problem is to find the minimum rate at which data must be reserved on a shared storage system in order to provide continuous buffered play-back of a variable-rate output schedule. The problem is equivalent to the minimum output rate: given input rates during various time periods, find the minimum output rate under which the buffer never overflows. The authors present an O(n log n) randomized algorithm and an O (n log n log log n) deterministic one

Keywords

algorithm theory; audio recording; buffer storage; distributed processing; multimedia systems; video recording; continuous buffered play-back; deterministic algorithms; digital audio/video systems; distributed systems; minimum reservation rate problem; randomized algorithm; shared storage system; variable-rate output schedule; Buffer storage; Computer science; Contracts; Mathematics; Parallel algorithms; Search methods; USA Councils; Video sharing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Theory and Computing Systems, 1993., Proceedings of the 2nd Israel Symposium on the

Conference_Location

Natanya

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3630-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISTCS.1993.253485

Filename

253485