Distributed hierarchical storage manager for a video-on-demand system

Craig Federighi; Lawrence A. Rowe

doi:10.1117/12.171775

1 April 1994 Distributed hierarchical storage manager for a video-on-demand system

Craig Federighi, Lawrence A. Rowe

Proceedings Volume 2185, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases II; (1994) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.171775
Event: IS&T/SPIE 1994 International Symposium on Electronic Imaging: Science and Technology, 1994, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

The design of a distributed video-on-demand system that is suitable for large video libraries is described. The system is designed to store 1000s of hours of video material on tertiary storage devices. A video that a user wants to view is loaded onto a video file server close to the users desktop from where it can be played. The system manages the distributed cache of videos on the file servers and schedules load requests to the tertiary storage devices. The system also includes a metadata database, described in a companion paper, that the user can query to locate video material of interest. This paper describes the software architecture, storage organization, application protocols for locating and loading videos, and distributed cache management algorithm used by the system.

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Craig Federighi and Lawrence A. Rowe "Distributed hierarchical storage manager for a video-on-demand system", Proc. SPIE 2185, Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases II, (1 April 1994); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.171775

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