Design and implementation of a small VOD server

Author

Kwon, Yeungmoon ; Ahn, Byoungchul

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Yeungnam Univ., Kyungsan, South Korea

Volume

1

fYear

1997

fDate

20-22 Aug 1997

Firstpage

109

Abstract

The paper presents a design of a small VOD server that provides full VCR functions for clients. The design has been implemented on symmetrical multiprocessors equipped with four 150 MHz Pentium processors. The operating systems are Microsoft Windows NT for the server and Windows 95 for clients. The VOD server can control and schedule more than 50 video sessions using a priority scheduling method. It reads a MPEG-1 stream from disks and sends them to clients through the network. The performance of the server is discussed

Keywords

client-server systems; interactive television; multimedia systems; multiprocessing systems; network servers; processor scheduling; 150 MHz; MPEG-1 stream reading; Microsoft Windows NT; Pentium processors; Windows 95; clients; disks; full VCR functions; operating systems; priority scheduling method; server performance; small VOD server design; symmetrical multiprocessors; video session control; video session scheduling; Costs; Hardware; Information retrieval; Libraries; Network servers; Processor scheduling; Quality of service; Streaming media; Video recording; Yarn;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, 1997. 10 Years PACRIM 1987-1997 - Networking the Pacific Rim. 1997 IEEE Pacific Rim Conference on

Conference_Location

Victoria, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3905-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PACRIM.1997.619913

Filename

619913