On the design of stream pumping engines for scalable video-on-demand systems

Author

Wu, Chiung-Shien ; Ma, Gin-Kou ; Lin, Bao-Shuh P.

Author_Institution

Comput. Commun. Res. Labs., Ind. Technol. Res. Inst., Hsinchu, Taiwan

Volume

43

Issue

3

fYear

1997

fDate

8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

381

Lastpage

385

Abstract

This paper presents the design of a generic video access device called the stream pumping engine (SPE) for various video applications such as scalable video-on-demand systems, or voluminous digital video storage. The SPE integrates both the storage and network controllers in one board and serves as the basic building block of digital multimedia server systems. Storage devices such as SCSI hard disk drives, or digital tapes, as well as network devices like Ethernet, and EtherSwitch can therefore be connected together in a more efficient way. This paper first outlines the design of the SPE, and then illustrates the interconnection structure of multiple SPEs and concludes with the applications of the SPE

Keywords

digital storage; interactive video; local area networks; multimedia communication; network servers; shared memory systems; telecommunication control; video recording; EtherSwitch; Ethernet; SCSI hard disk drives; digital multimedia server systems; digital tapes; digital video storage; interconnection structure; network controllers; network devices; s video applications; scalable video on demand systems; storage controllers; storage devices; stream pumping engines design; Asynchronous transfer mode; Control systems; Engines; Ethernet networks; File servers; Hard disks; Joining processes; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.628644

Filename

628644