Title :
NetMedia: a client-server distributed multimedia environment
Author :
Gollapudi, Sreenivas ; Zhang, Aidong
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., State Univ. of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
Abstract :
Advances in multimedia computing technologies offer new approaches to support on-line accesses to information from a variety of sources such as video clips, audio, images, and books. A client-server distributed multimedia system would be a practical approach to support such functionalities. We present the design and implementation of a client-server distributed multimedia database environment that can be used to support large digital libraries. System architecture and design are described. Server functionalities, including client scheduling, data buffering and admission control, are investigated. A client request can only be admitted if both the quality-of-service (QoS) requirements from the client and the upper bound on total buffer consumption at the server are maintained
Keywords :
buffer storage; client-server systems; distributed databases; multimedia computing; scheduling; visual databases; NetMedia; admission control; audio; books; client request admission; client scheduling; client-server distributed multimedia environment; data buffering; images; large digital libraries; multimedia computing; on-line information access; quality-of-service requirements; server functionalities; system architecture; system design; total buffer consumption; video clips; Admission control; Computer buffers; Distributed databases; Multimedia databases; Network servers; Protocols; Software libraries; Streaming media; Upper bound; Wide area networks;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia Database Management Systems, 1996., Proceedings of International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Blue Mountain Lake, NY
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7469-5
DOI :
10.1109/MMDBMS.1996.541867
