Poster on a distributed RAID VOD system

Author

Nakamura, Shunichiro ; Minemura, Harumi ; Yamaguchi, Tomohisa ; Shimizu, Hiroshi ; Watanabe, Takashi ; Mizuno, Tadanori

Author_Institution

Mitsubishi Electr. Corp., Kamakura, Japan

fYear

1997

fDate

24-27 Jun 1997

Firstpage

226

Abstract

Summary form only given. We present an implementation of a VOD (video on demand) system that addresses the problem of increasing video stream supply capabilities. To obtain fundamental video stream transfer characteristics on Ethernet, we first performed an experiment in which it became clear that bottlenecks of the CPU of a video server were the most serious. To solve this problem we implemented a distributed RAID4 (Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks) method video server. Distributed RAID means extending the RAID method usually applied to disks to the servers, so as to achieve improvements in performance and reliability. The great advantage of this architecture is that the linear performance improvement can be achieved by adding inexpensive servers of a diffusion model

Keywords

client-server systems; fault tolerant computing; interactive television; local area networks; magnetic disc storage; multimedia computing; performance evaluation; reliability; telecommunication computing; CPU; Ethernet; Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks; VOD system; bottlenecks; diffusion model; distributed RAID; distributed RAID4; performance; reliability; video on demand; video server; video stream transfer; Degradation; Distributed computing; Ethernet networks; Local area networks; Memory management; Streaming media; System testing; Video on demand;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Cooperative Information Systems, 1997. COOPIS '97., Proceedings of the Second IFCIS International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kiawah Island, SC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7946-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/COOPIS.1997.613819

Filename

613819