Due to the explosive growth of the Internet and increasing demand for multimedia
information on the Web, streaming video over the Internet has received tremendous …

In this article we discuss the strategic directions and challenges in the management and use
of storage systems—those components of computer systems responsible for the storage and …

In the last couple of years a dramatic growth of enterprise data storage capacity can be
observed. As a result, new strategies have been sought that allow servers and storage being …

An integrated multimedia file system supports the storage and retrieval of multiple data
types. In this paper, we first discuss various design methodologies for building integrated file …

In a video-on-demand server, resource reservation is required to guarantee continuous
delivery. Hence any given storage device (or a stri** group treated as a single logical …

In a video-on-demand server, resource reservation is needed for continuous delivery.
Hence, any given server can serve only a fixed maximum of clients. Different videos can be …

Mobile multimedia systems must provide application quality of service (QoS) in the presence
of dynamically varying and multiple resource constraints (eg, variations in available CPU …

A distributed multimedia system (DMS) is an integrated communication, computing, and
information system that enables the processing, management, delivery, and presentation of …

Great advances have been made in the database field. Relational and object-oriented
databases, distributed and client/server databases, and large-scale data warehousing are …

Continuous-media (CM) servers have been around for some years. Apart from server
capacity, another important issue in the deployment of CM servers is reliability. This study …