Performance comparison of video transport over ATM and ServerNet interconnects

Author

Hossain, Ashfaq ; Kang, Sung-Mo ; Horst, Bob

Author_Institution

Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

3-6 Jun 1997

Firstpage

612

Lastpage

613

Abstract

The authors discuss the implementation of iPOINT Video Server and Video Client applications along with rate-control feedbacks and network loss handling mechanisms. They report experimental results for ATM and ServerNet, using 60 MHz SparcStation20s (SS20), 30 MHz SparcStation10s (SS10) and 100 MHz Pentium (P5) systems as video servers. The study compares CPU utilization and corresponding video throughput of these platforms, running Solaris 2.5 and WindowsNT 3.51, respectively. They show how these network interfaces affect the behavior of these hosts as video servers and thereby the quality of served video

Keywords

asynchronous transfer mode; client-server systems; feedback; interactive video; multimedia systems; network interfaces; network servers; optical interconnections; performance evaluation; 30 to 100 MHz; ATM interconnects; CPU utilization; Pentium systems; ServerNet interconnects; Solaris 2.5; SparcStation10s; SparcStation20s; WindowsNT 3.51; iPOINT Video Client application; iPOINT Video Server application; network interfaces; network loss handling mechanisms; performance comparison; rate-control feedback; served video quality; video servers; video throughput; video transport; Clocks; Degradation; Fabrics; Feedback; Hardware; Jitter; Kernel; Storage area networks; Streaming media; Throughput;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Computing and Systems '97. Proceedings., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Ottawa, Ont.

Print_ISBN

0-8186-5530-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMCS.1997.609781

Filename

609781