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

fYear

1996

fDate

14-16 Aug 1996

Firstpage

160

Lastpage

167

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Database Management Systems, 1996., Proceedings of International Workshop on

Conference_Location

Blue Mountain Lake, NY

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7469-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMDBMS.1996.541867

Filename

541867