Video server on an ATM connected cluster of workstations

Author

Sandstå, Olav ; Langørgen, Stein ; Midtstraum, Roger

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Norwegian Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Trondheim, Norway

fYear

1997

fDate

10-15 Nov 1997

Firstpage

207

Lastpage

217

Abstract

Video servers are important for applications which make use of digital video. The video servers should provide better functionality than most of today´s video servers offer,-e.g., support of flexible and instant user interactions, delivery of multiple video formats and support of virtual video documents. In this paper we discuss the requirements that video servers should fulfill and we describe the design and implementation of the Elvira video server. The Elvira video server is built on a cluster of standard UNIX workstations interconnected by an ATM switch. The capacity of the Elvira server is evaluated and we show the effects of different strategies for allocation of video delta across nodes and disks

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; network servers; television networks; workstations; ATM connected cluster of workstations; Elvira video server; UNIX workstations; digital video; video server; virtual video documents; Application software; Asynchronous transfer mode; Information science; Multimedia databases; Network servers; Switches; TV; Video sharing; Watches; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science Society, 1997. Proceedings., XVII International Conference of the Chilean

Conference_Location

Valparaiso

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8052-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SCCC.1997.637093

Filename

637093