Title :
Server architectures for interactive multimedia applications
Author :
Li, Frederick W B ; Chan, Shermann S M ; Li, Qing ; Lau, Rynson W.H.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of CEIT, City Univ. of Hong Kong, China
Abstract :
As the number of users of an interactive multimedia application increases, the performance of the server serving the users may decrease significantly and fail to satisfy the expectation of the users. In this paper, we investigate issues that are important in the design of server architectures for supporting interactive multimedia applications.
Keywords :
Internet; multimedia servers; virtual reality; Internet; distributed virtual environment; interactive multimedia applications; server architectures; video streaming; Bandwidth; Broadcasting; Collaboration; Internet; Multicast communication; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Streaming media; Virtual environment; Web server;
Conference_Titel :
Information, Communications and Signal Processing, 2003 and Fourth Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia. Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference of the Fourth International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-8185-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICICS.2003.1292486
