A Scalable Video-on-Demand Service for the Provision of VCR-Like Functions

– One approach to supporting continuous media traffic is via resource reservation at connection establishment time. The shortcomings of this approach are the lack of flexibility in re-negotiating bandwidth parameters after connection establishment and the inability to react to changing server load conditions. In this paper we propose a “selected access scheme” for re-negotiating continuous media delivery from a video-on-demand server. We consider the overall system perspective on resource availability rather than a per-connection resource management scheme. The selected access scheme is combined with data placement strategies for the server to dynamically access desired video frames from a shared storage device. This approach is especially suitable for video data compressed and stored using an inter-frame encoding scheme such as specified by the MPEG standard. Simulation results show that the proposed model can utilize server bandwidth, improve the reliability of playback, redu...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1995
• Where: ICMCS
• Authors: Huang-Jen Chen, A. Krishnamurthy, Thomas D. C. Little, Dinesh Venkatesh
• Keywords: Connection Establishment, Continuous Media, ICMCS 1995, Multimedia, Selected Access Scheme