Streaming Media Server Design - Softcover

Dashti, Ali; Kim, Seon Ho; Shahabi, Cyrus; Zimmermann, Roger

9780130670380: Streaming Media Server Design

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130670383 ISBN 13: 9780130670380

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2003

The book discusses the design of Streaming Media servers in single disk drive; multi-disk platforms; and heterogeneous disks platforms; covers distributed Streaming Media server design; discusses fault tolerance issues; illustrates the design of Streaming Media server software with the inclusion of Yima software.

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From the Back Cover:

Streaming media servers: state-of-the-art design and applications

Video, audio, and other streaming media (SM) represent the most demanding data types in a wide range of emerging applications, from corporate training networks to video-on-demand (VOD) and interactive TV. SM's large file sizes and real-time display requirements have required extensive innovation in storage, networking, compression, and server design. This book systematically reviews the fundamental issues and techniques underlying the design, architecture, and implementation of high-performance, large-scale SM servers. Coverage includes:

State-of-the-art techniques and applications, with theoretical underpinnings and mathematical origins
Extensive hands-on SM server design exercises
Data representation and placement in multimedia storage systems
Retrieving and displaying data at pre-specified rates: Avoiding "hiccups"
Optimizing server performance for diverse applications
Single-disk and multi-disk SM server design
Drive clustering and heterogeneous disks: supporting high storage and bandwidth requirements
Low latency system design for digital authoring
Super Streaming: rationale and techniques
Hierarchical storage, distributed SM servers, and other key techniques
Companion Web site provides lecture notes, software updates, errata, and Web resource links

Whether you're a system or application designer, developer, SM or VOD specialist, performance analyst, or researcher, this book delivers start-to-finish guidance for building servers to support your most demanding applications.

About the Author:

ALI E. DASHTI, Assistant Professor in the Computer Engineering Department at Kuwait University, specializes in the design of multimedia surveillance systems, and the development of hierarchical storage systems for multimedia databases and applications.

SEON HO KIM is Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Denver, Denver, CO, and a consultant with leading multimedia and communications firms. His expertise is the design and development of high performance interactive multimedia systems. CYRUS SHAHABI is Assistant Professor and Director of Information Laboratory (InfoLab) at USC's Computer Science Department and at IMSC. He has written more than 70 articles and papers on multimedia databases, storage servers, multidimensional databases, and related topics. He is also the Research Area Director of the Information Management trust at IMSC. ROGER ZIMMERMANN is Research Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at USC, and one of the key researchers of the Remote Media Immersion project at IMSC.

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