Seo Gyun Kim, Kyung Hoon Kim, Jae Sang Ryu, Ji Seung Nam

The KIPS Transactions:PartA, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 287-292, Dec. 2001
10.3745/KIPSTA.2001.8.4.287,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Multimedia service systems should have efficient capacity to serve the growing clients and new data. In the general streaming services, users can endure the small amount of time delay at the beginning of service. But they want to have good quality of service. A streaming server tries to transfer video files to clients from a repository of files in real time. The server must guarantee concurrent and uninterrupted delivery of each video stream requested from clients. To achieve its purpose, many stream servers adopt multi-processors, sufficient memory, and RAID or SAN in their systems. In this paper, we propose a Linux-based parallel media streaming server. It is superior to the other systems in the storing structure, fault-tolerance, and service capacity. Since this system supports the web interface, users can operate easily through the www. This system uses unique striping policy to distribute multimedia files into the parallel storage nodes. If a service request occurs, each storage node transmits striped files concurrently to the client. Its performance is better than the Single media streaming service because of the parallel architecture.

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