Designing a fully interactive video-on-demand server with a novel data placement and retrieval scheme

Author

Lee, Meng-Huang ; Wen, Chun-Hung ; Cheng, Chih-Yuan ; Oyang, Yen-Jen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

41

Issue

3

fYear

1995

fDate

8/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

851

Lastpage

858

Abstract

The paper discusses the design of a video-on-demand server that supports fully interactive operations such as play, fast forward search, and fast backward search, with a novel data placement and retrieval scheme. The main distinctions of this scheme are that (1) it requires neither extra disk bandwidth nor extra memory to support fast forward and fast backward searches; (2) it is based on a general two-level disk array architecture that exploits both parallelism and concurrency offered by fine-grain and coarse-grain disk array structures

Keywords

information retrieval systems; interactive systems; interactive television; multimedia communication; multiprocessing systems; network servers; parallel architectures; telecommunication equipment; coarse-grain disk array structures; concurrency; data placement; data retrieval scheme; fast backward search; fast forward search; fine-grain disk array structures; fully interactive video-on-demand server; parallelism; play; two-level disk array architecture; Bandwidth; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Data engineering; Design engineering; Information retrieval; Multimedia systems; Parallel processing; Video on demand; Watches;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.468074

Filename

468074