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Odyssey: a high‐performance clustered video server
Author(s) -
Wu MinYou,
Shu Wei,
Lin ChowSing
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.521
Subject(s) - computer science , video server , server , scheduling (production processes) , ethernet , synchronization (alternating current) , computer network , video on demand , set (abstract data type) , multimedia , real time computing , channel (broadcasting) , operations management , economics , programming language
Video servers are essential in video‐on‐demand and other multimedia applications. In this paper, we present our high‐performance clustered CBR video server, Odyssey . Odyssey is a server connecting PCs with switched Ethernet. It provides efficient support for normal play and interactive browsing functions such as fast‐forward and fast‐backward. We designed a set of algorithms for scheduling, synchronization and admission control, which results in a high utilization of resources. Odyssey is able to deliver a large number of video streams. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.