Server-Side Buffering Measurements for VoD Systems

Author

Grishikashvili, Ella ; Pereira, Rubem

Author_Institution

Bus. Sch., Edge Hill Univ., Ormskirk, UK

fYear

2011

Firstpage

142

Lastpage

147

Abstract

A key issue in the performance of Video-on-Demand systems is the management of the data storage, typically based on disk arrays located with the server. The high bit rate associated with the medium, as well as the aim of supporting a large number of parallel streams, necessitate careful design and management of disk arrays. One of the related problems is the assignment of buffer space at the video server in order to harmonise differences in retrieval and transmission rates of the streams. In this article, we conduct a number of experiments with MPEG-4 compressed video, in order to obtain buffering occupancy values for various parallel streams.

Keywords

buffer storage; video coding; video on demand; video servers; video streaming; MPEG-4 compressed video; VoD systems; buffer space assignment; data storage; disk arrays; server side buffering measurement; video on demand systems; Bit rate; Computational modeling; Schedules; Servers; Smoothing methods; Streaming media; Transform coding; MPEG-4; buffering; simulation; video on demand; video server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network-Based Information Systems (NBiS), 2011 14th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tirana

ISSN

2157-0418

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0789-6

Electronic_ISBN

2157-0418

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NBiS.2011.30

Filename

6041576