Multimedia storage servers: a tutorial Page 1 Servers: A lbtorial D. James Gemmell Simon Fraser
University Harrick M. Vin University of Texas at Austin Dilip D. Kandlur International Business …

Future advances in networking coupled with rapid advances in storage technologies will
make it feasible to build a multimedia on-demand server capable of providing services …

We address the unique requirements of a multimedia file system such as continuous storage
and retrieval of media, maintenance of synchronization between multiple media streams …

The problem of collocational storage of media strands, which are sequences of continuously
recorded audio samples or video frames, on disk to support the integration of storage and …

A framework is presented for the specification of performance requirements, and several
high-level design principles for performance-driven ATM traffic controls based on resource …

There is a huge amount of information and data stored in publicly available online
databases that consist of large text files accessed by Boolean search techniques. It is widely …

Query processing in a multimedia document system is described. Multimedia documents are
information objects containing formatted data, text, image, graphics, and voice. The query …

Multimedia information systems are considerably more complex than traditional ones in that
they deal with very heterogeneous data such as text, video, and audio-characterized by …

Multimedia Database Management Systems presents the issues and the techniques used in
building multimedia database management systems. Chapter 1 provides an overview of …

The problem of communicating the radiologist's findings to the attending physician is
introduced, and it is shown why it is essentially a multimedia communication problem. A …