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MMS
2000
13 years 3 months ago
SMDP: Minimizing Buffer Requirements for Continuous Media Servers
Excessive buffer requirement to handle continuous-media playbacks is an impediment to costeffective provisioning for on-line video retrieval. Given the skewed distribution of video...
Youjip Won, Jaideep Srivastava
MMS
2000
13 years 3 months ago
Video Placement and Configuration of Distributed Video Servers on Cable TV Networks
A large-scale, distributed video-on-demand (VOD) system allows geographically dispersed residential and business users to access video services, such as movies and other multimedia...
Constantinos Vassilakis, Michael Paterakis, Peter ...
MMS
2000
13 years 3 months ago
Failure Recovery Algorithms for Multimedia Servers
In this paper, we present two novel disk failure recovery methods that utilize the inherent characteristics of video streams for efficient recovery. Whereas the first method explo...
Prashant J. Shenoy, Harrick M. Vin
MMS
2000
13 years 3 months ago
Retrieval Scheduling for Collaborative Multimedia Presentations
Abstract. The single-system approach is no longer sufficient to handle the load on popular Internet servers, especially for those offering extensive multimedia content. Such servic...
Ping Bai, B. Prabhakaran, Aravind Srinivasan
MMS
2000
13 years 3 months ago
Dynamic Quota-Based Admission Control with Sub-Rating in Multimedia Servers
An admission control algorithm for a multimedia server is responsible for determining if a new request can be accepted without violating the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements o...
Sheng-Tzong Cheng, Chi-Ming Chen, Ing-Ray Chen