ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
A case for redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID)
SIGMOD '88 Proceedings of the 1988 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
MPEG: a video compression standard for multimedia applications
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on digital multimedia systems
A file system for continuous media
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
Disk scheduling in a multimedia I/O system
MULTIMEDIA '93 Proceedings of the first ACM international conference on Multimedia
I/O issues in a multimedia system
Computer
Staggered striping in multimedia information systems
SIGMOD '94 Proceedings of the 1994 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Scheduling policies for an on-demand video server with batching
MULTIMEDIA '94 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Multimedia
A statistical admission control algorithm for multimedia servers
MULTIMEDIA '94 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Multimedia
On multimedia repositories, personal computers, and hierarchical storage systems
MULTIMEDIA '94 Proceedings of the second ACM international conference on Multimedia
The SPIFFI scalable video-on-demand system
SIGMOD '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Fault tolerant design of multimedia servers
SIGMOD '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
An online video placement policy based on bandwidth to space ratio (BSR)
SIGMOD '95 Proceedings of the 1995 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Prospects for Interactive Video-on-Demand
IEEE MultiMedia
Efficient Storage Techniques for Digital Continuous Multimedia
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Continuous Retrieval of Multimedia Data Using Parallelism
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Management of Physical Replicas in Parallel Multimedia in Information Systems
FODO '93 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Foundations of Data Organization and Algorithms
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Network and Operating System Support for Digital Audio and Video
Demand Paging for Video-on-Demand Servers
ICMCS '95 Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
Design and Evaluation of Data Access Strategies in a High Performance Multimedia-on-Demand Server
ICMCS '95 Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems
Multimedia Tools and Applications
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High-performance servers and high-speed networks will form the backbone of the infrastructure required for distributed multimedia information systems. A server for an interactive distributed multimedia system may require thousands of gigabytes of storage space and high I/O bandwidth. In order to maximize system utilization and, thus, minimize cost, it is essential that the load be balanced among each of the server's components viz., the disks, the interconnection network, and the scheduler. Many algorithms for maximizing retrieval capacity from the storage system have been proposed in the literature. This paper presents techniques for improving server capacity by assigning media requests to the nodes of a server so as to balance the load on the interconnection network and the scheduling nodes. Five policies for request assignment驴round-robin (RR), minimum link allocation (MLA), minimum contention allocation (MCA), weighted minimum link allocation (WMLA), and weighted minimum contention allocation (WMCA)驴are developed. The performance of these policies on a server model developed earlier is presented. We also consider the issue of file replication, and develop two schemes for storing the replicas, the Parent Group Based Round-Robin Placement (PGBRRP) scheme, and the Group Wide Round-Robin Placement (GWRRP) scheme. The performance of the request assignment policies in the presence of file replication is presented.