Interactive Video-On-Demand Systems Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies

Interactive Video-On-Demand Systems Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies / by T.P. Jimmy To, Babak Hamidzadeh.

Interactive Video-on-Demand Systems: Resource Management and Scheduling Strategies addresses issues in scheduling and management of resources in an interactive continuous-media (e.g., audio and video) server. The book emphasizes dynamic and run-time strategies for resource scheduling and management....

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Main Authors: To, T.P. Jimmy (Author), Hamidzadeh, Babak (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1998.
Edition:1st ed. 1998.
Series:The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 472
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Multimedia information systems.
Computer communication systems.
Signal processing.
Image processing.
Speech processing systems.
Electronic resources (E-books)
Online Access:Click to view e-book
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Electronic access restricted to members of the Holy Cross Community.
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Video-On-Demand service
  • 1.2 VOD system model
  • 1.3 Disk scheduling policies
  • 1.4 Data placement schemes
  • 1.5 Buffer management options
  • 1.6 Organization of the book
  • 2 Performance issues in Interactive VOD Service
  • 2.1 Steady-state stream throughput
  • 2.2 Effect of transients on stream throughput
  • 2.3 Admission ratio and queuing time
  • 2.4 Start-up latency
  • 2.5 Sporadic service throughput
  • 2.6 Quality-of-Service
  • 2.7 Summary
  • 3 Related Work
  • 3.1 Work on disk scheduling
  • 3.2 Work focusing on specific issues
  • 4 A Dynamic Approach to VOD Scheduling
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Closely related work
  • 4.3 Greedy-but-Safe, Earliest-Deadline-First scheduling
  • 4.4 Experimental evaluation
  • 4.5 Summary
  • 5 On Improving The Transient Performance of Cscan Schedulers
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Closely related work
  • 5.3 Greedy-but-Safe, Seek-Reducing scheduling (GSSR)
  • 5.4 Experimental evaluation
  • 5.5 Summary
  • 6 Prioritized Admission Strategies to Improve User-Perceived Performance
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Model and problem
  • 6.3 Prioritized admission strategies
  • 6.4 Experimental evaluation
  • 6.5 Summary
  • 7 Run-Time Optimization of Readsize
  • 7.1 Introduction
  • 7.2 Modeling CM data access
  • 7.3 Readsize bounds
  • 7.4 Readsize control strategies
  • 7.5 Experimental evaluation
  • 7.6 Summary
  • 8 Conclusions
  • 8.1 General conclusions
  • 8.2 Future extension
  • References.

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