Skyscraper Broadcasting is a recently proposed statically scheduled broadcast technique for
video-on-demand that addresses the network-I/O bottleneck to provide significantly superior …

A number of techniques have been developed for maximizing disk bandwidth utilization in
media servers, including disk arm scheduling and data placement ones. Instead, in this …

This chapter describes the design for High-performance Data Recording Architecture
(HYDRA). Presently, digital continuous media (CM) are well established as an integral part …

In this paper, we study the problem of how to maximize the throughput of a continuous-
media system, given fixed amounts of buffer space and disk bandwidth both predetermined …

Interactive multimedia applications require fast response time. Traditional disk scheduling
schemes can incur high latencies, and caching data in memory to reduce latency is usually …

In video-on-demand (VOD) systems, as the size of the buffer allocated to user requests
increases, initial latency and memory requirements increase. Hence, the buffer size must be …

In video-on-demand (VOD) systems, as the size of the buffer allocated to user requests
increases, initial latency and memory requirements increase. Hence, the buffer size must be …

In video databases, a video document has two abstractions. The high level abstraction
corresponds to the view in which the contents of that video document are seen by end users …

Multimedia information systems pose significantly different data management requirements
than traditional database applications. Some of the multimedia data management issues …

In designing cost-effective video-on-demand (VOD) servers, efficient resource management
and proper system sizing are of great importance. In addition to large storage and I/O …