MASEMS: a scalable and extensible multimedia server

Advances in network, hardware, and software technologies have brought multimedia services over the Internet into reality. However, as the Internet community is growing so fast, server scalability becomes a critical issue. For the customers on the other hand, administrative costs and complexity are still the number one problems to face. We propose a multimedia server that will liberate customers from messy configuration problems while scaling up the server can be achieved just by adding new server nodes and the software infrastructure. We present our solutions from the view of software architecture and how our proposed system solves some critical issues that could not be solved by the existing systems