Scheduling for interactive operations in parallel video servers

Author

Wu, Min-You ; Shu, Wei

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA

fYear

1997

fDate

3-6 Jun 1997

Firstpage

178

Lastpage

185

Abstract

Providing efficient support for interactive operations such as fast-forward and fast-backward is essential in video-on-demand and other multimedia server systems. The authors present two basic approaches for scheduling interactive operations, the prefetching approach and the grouping approach. Scheduling algorithms are presented for both fine-grain and coarse-grain data blocks. These algorithms can precisely schedule video streams for both normal playout and interactive operations

Keywords

distributed memory systems; file servers; image sequences; interactive systems; interactive television; multimedia computing; processor scheduling; shared memory systems; coarse-grain data blocks; fast-backward; fast-forward; fine-grain data blocks; grouping approach; interactive operation scheduling; multimedia server systems; normal playout; parallel video servers; prefetching approach; scheduling algorithms; video stream scheduling; video-on-demand systems; Bandwidth; Computer architecture; Displays; Network servers; Prefetching; Processor scheduling; Scheduling algorithm; Space technology; Streaming media; Video sharing;

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.1997.609591

Filename

609591