Long Duration Continuous Media Retrieval

Abstract

DefinitionPool of servers can be used to retrieve very long duration movies.A central issue in the design networked/distributed multimedia services or DMMS is in addressing how to retrieve and transmit compressed-format videos (e.g., movies) from the server sites to the clients using the underlying network without under-utilizing the resources (e.g., storage of disk and memory, bandwidth of disk and network, etc.). Single-server systems fail obviously with an increase in the user access rates and also the network bandwidth becomes a natural bottleneck, especially for a DMMS type. A decentralized (or distributed) approach would rather handle this increased access rates more elegantly, a typical of a requirement on Internet like networks. As opposed to the idea of employing a single server, multiple servers can be employed for retrieval. This strategy is referred to as Multiple Server Retrieval Strategy (MSRS) [1, 2]. In MSRS, several servers retrieve disjoint portions of a mov ...