OS/2 LAN Server Ultimedia performance on the Token-Ring

Author

Baugher, Mark ; Humphrey, Victoria L.

Author_Institution

IBM Personal Software Products

fYear

1994

fDate

15-19 May 1994

Firstpage

275

Lastpage

284

Abstract

Multimedia file server performance is evaluated in terms of the number of multimedia streams that can be supported and the quality of multimedia stream delivery. Providing high-quality stream delivery over a shared media network such as Ethernet or Token-Ring at a significant fraction of the network´s maximum throughput is a major problem for a practical multimedia sever. This paper describes how the IEEE 802.5 Token-Ring priority mechanism is used by OS/2 LAN Server Ultimedia to reserve bandwidth for multimedia file server streams. Results of experiments measuring LAN Server´s ability to deliver high-quality multimedia streams over a Token-Ring are presented. The question of extending high-quality multimedia onto larger networks is discussed

Keywords

LAN interconnection; file servers; local area networks; multimedia systems; network operating systems; performance evaluation; token networks; Ethernet; IEEE 802.5 Token-Ring priority mechanism; OS/2 LAN Server Ultimedia performance; high-quality multimedia streams; high-quality stream delivery; maximum throughput; multimedia file server performance; multimedia streams; shared media network; Computer network performance; LAN interconnection; Local area networks; Multimedia communication; Token networks;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1994., Proceedings of the International Conference on

Conference_Location

Boston, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5530-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1994.292469

Filename

292469