A generic platform for scalable access to multimedia-on-demand systems.

Access to multimedia servers is commonly done according to a client/server model where the end user at the client host retrieves multimedia objects from a multimedia server. In a distributed environment, a number of end users may need to access a number of multimedia servers through one or several c...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	IEEE Journal on selected areas in communications 17, 9 (1999).
Main Author:	Boutaba, R.
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	QoS requirements. SMoD. Blocking probability reduction. Client/server model. Communication networks. Cost constraints. Distributed access platform. Distributed environment. Dynamic load distribution. Generic platform. High performance storage devices. Multimedia objects. Multimedia servers. Multimedia-on-demand systems. Performance evaluation. Quality-of-service. Resource utilization. Scalable access platform. Scalable movie-on-demand system. Simulation. Static replication. User access management. Video servers.