Power programming with RPC
SNMP, SNMPv2, and CMIP: the practical guide to network management
SNMP, SNMPv2, and CMIP: the practical guide to network management
Guide to writing DCE applications (2nd ed.)
Guide to writing DCE applications (2nd ed.)
Video dialtone technology: digital video over ADSL, HFC, FTTC, and ATM
Video dialtone technology: digital video over ADSL, HFC, FTTC, and ATM
IBM Systems Journal
Channel allocation under batching and VCR control in video-on-demand systems
Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing - Special issue on multimedia processing and technology
COMPCON '96 Proceedings of the 41st IEEE International Computer Conference
Tiger shark: a scalable file system for multimedia
IBM Journal of Research and Development - Papers on mustimedia systems
The trials and travails of interactive TV
IEEE Spectrum
Continuity and synchronization in MPEG
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
IBM Journal of Research and Development - Papers on mustimedia systems
Tiger shark: a scalable file system for multimedia
IBM Journal of Research and Development - Papers on mustimedia systems
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This paper describes the architecture and implementation of a scalable video server for interactive television services, which has been used in several video-on-demand projects in Japan. This server supports a large number of users with the delivery of high-quality video and provides many types of interactive multimedia applications. The server, using the IBM RISC System/6000® and RISC System/6000 Scalable POWERparallel Systems®, permits full interactive operation with clients. It also can deliver a large number of streams when it is expanded from a single-processor system to a multi-processor system, without any change of the server architecture. In this paper, we describe the end-to-end architecture, the design considerations regarding scalability of the delivery scheme for MPEG-2 transport streams, and the management mechanism for interactive applications. This paper also addresses the implementation of quality of service for digital services through a hybrid fiber-coax network infrastructure, and protocols for interactive television services.