An inheritance-based technique for building simulation proofs incrementally
Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering
Group communication specifications: a comprehensive study
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Moshe: A group membership service for WANs
ACM Transactions on Computer Systems (TOCS)
On Group Communication Support in CORBA
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Ad Hoc Membership for Scalable Applications
DISC '02 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Distributed Computing
Design and Implementation of a Streaming System for MPEG-1 Videos
Multimedia Tools and Applications
International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems
Clusters-Based distributed streaming services with fault-tolerant schemes
PCM'04 Proceedings of the 5th Pacific Rim conference on Advances in Multimedia Information Processing - Volume Part III
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This paper describes a highly available distributed video on demand (VoD) service which is inherently fault tolerant. The VoD service is provided by multiple servers that reside at different sites. New servers may be brought up ``on the fly'' to alleviate the load on other servers. When a server crashes it is replaced by another server in a transparent way; the clients are unaware of the change of service provider. In test runs of our VoD service prototype, such transitions are not noticeable to a human observer who uses the service.Our VoD service uses a sophisticated flow control mechanism and supports adjustment of the video quality to client capabilities. It does not assume any proprietary network technology: It uses commodity hardware and publicly available network technologies (e.g., TCP/IP, ATM). Our service may run on any machine connected to the Internet. The service exploits a group communication system as a building block for high availability. The utilization of group communication greatly simplifies the service design.