Object-oriented simulation with hierarchical, modular models: intelligent agents and endomorphic systems
Designing file systems for digital video and audio
SOSP '91 Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
System architecture for a large scale video on demand service
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems - Driving applications for future networks
Efficient Storage Techniques for Digital Continuous Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Resource Scheduling In A High-Performance Multimedia Server
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Design and Evaluation of a Generic Software Architecture for On-Demand Video Servers
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
The design and implementation of video servers in video-on-demand systems
Progress in computer research
Data Storage and Stream Caching for Video on Demand Servers
ASIAN '02 Proceedings of the7th Asian Computing Science Conference on Advances in Computing Science: Internet Computing and Modeling, Grid Computing, Peer-to-Peer Computing, and Cluster
An adaptive video multicast scheme for varying workloads
Multimedia Systems
Utilizing multi-channel multicast to provide scheduled video delivery
Computer Communications
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The availability of high-speed networks, fast computers and improved storage technology is stimulating interest in the development of video on-demand services that provide facilities similar to a video cassette player (VCP). In this paper, we present a design of a video-on-demand (VOD) server, capable of supporting a large number of video requests with complete functionality of a remote control (as used in VCPs), for each request. In the proposed design, we have used an interleaved storage method with constrained allocation of video and audio blocks on the disk to provide continuous retrieval. Our storage scheme interleaves a movie with itself (while satisfying the constraints on video and audio block allocation. This approach minimizes the starting delay and the buffer requirement at the user end, while ensuring a jitter-free display for every request. In order to minimize the starting delay and to support more nonconcurrent requests, we have proposed the use of multiple disks for the same movie. Since a disk needs to hold only one movie, an array of inexpensive disks can be used, which reduces the overall cost of the proposed system. A scheme supported by our disk storage method to provide all the functions of a remote control such as "fast-forwarding", "rewinding" (with play "on" or "off"), "pause" and "play" has also been discussed. This scheme handles a user request independent of others and satisfies it without degrading the quality of service to other users. The server design presented in this paper achieves the multiple goals of high disk utilization, global buffer optimization, cost-effectiveness and high-quality service to the users.