This paper presents an overview of the recent advances on the design of clustered
multimedia servers. It is focused on the following aspects: server architecture, media data …

Lately, on-demand streaming multimedia applications have become very popular.
Contemporary personal computers can handle the load imposed by such multimedia …

A file server for continuous media must provide resource guarantees and only admit
requests that do not violate the resource availability. This paper addresses the admission …

The first part of this thesis provides a survey of continuous media serves, including
discussions on streaming protocols, models and techniques. In the second part, a novel …

Streaming applications have used many different approaches to provide delay-sensitive
data to clients across networks. Previous work [4] showed that a detailed deterministic …

Media server software is significantly complicated to develop and maintain, due to the nature
of the many interface aspects which must be considered. This paper provides a case study …

In this paper, we discuss a comprehensive mechanism for distributed media request
processing to achieve performance improvement and QoS enhancement in media-based …

This article addresses path selection problems that arise in a large-scale media server. In
particular, the problem on a distributed server with two tiers of server nodes connected by a …

In the topology of today's World Wide Web, proxy servers have been used extensively to
reduce network traffic by cutting down the amount of repetitive information. However …