Lie, Wai-Kwok Peter. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1997. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 79-83). / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgments --- p.ii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 2 --- Background & Related Work --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Early Work on Multimedia Servers --- p.6 / Chapter 2.2 --- Compression of Multimedia Data --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3 --- Multimedia File Systems --- p.7 / Chapter 2.4 --- Scheduling Support for Multimedia Systems --- p.8 / Chapter 2.5 --- Inter-media Synchronization --- p.9 / Chapter 2.6 --- Related Work on Replication in VOD Systems --- p.9 / Chapter 3 --- System Model --- p.12 / Chapter 4 --- Replication Methodology --- p.15 / Chapter 4.1 --- Replication Triggering Policy --- p.16 / Chapter 4.2 --- Source & Target Nodes Selection Policies --- p.17 / Chapter 4.3 --- Replication Policies --- p.18 / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Policy 1: Injected Sequential Replication --- p.20 / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Policy 2: Piggybacked Sequential Replication --- p.22 / Chapter 4.3.3 --- Policy 3: Injected Parallel Replication --- p.25 / Chapter 4.3.4 --- Policy 4: Piggybacked Parallel Replication --- p.28 / Chapter 4.3.5 --- Policy 5: Injected & Piggybacked Parallel Replication --- p.34 / Chapter 4.3.6 --- Policy 6: Multi-Source Injected & Piggybacked Parallel Replication --- p.36 / Chapter 4.4 --- Dereplication Policy --- p.37 / Chapter 5 --- Distributed Architecture for VOD Server --- p.39 / Chapter 5.1 --- Server Node --- p.40 / Chapter 5.2 --- Movie Manager --- p.42 / Chapter 5.3 --- Metadata Manager --- p.42 / Chapter 5.4 --- Protocols for Distributed VOD Architecture --- p.43 / Chapter 5.4.1 --- Protocol for Servicing New Customers --- p.43 / Chapter 5.4.2 --- Protocol for Servicing Existing Customers --- p.45 / Chapter 5.4.3 --- Protocol for Single/Multi-Source Injected & Parallel Replication --- p.46 / Chapter 5.4.4 --- Protocol for Dereplication --- p.48 / Chapter 5.5 --- Failure Handling --- p.49 / Chapter 5.5.1 --- Handling of Server Node Failures --- p.50 / Chapter 5.5.2 --- Handling of Movie Manager Failures --- p.52 / Chapter 6 --- Results --- p.55 / Chapter 6.1 --- Performance Metric --- p.56 / Chapter 6.2 --- Simulation Environment --- p.58 / Chapter 6.3 --- Results of Experiments without Dereplication --- p.59 / Chapter 6.3.1 --- Comparison of Different Replication Policies --- p.60 / Chapter 6.3.2 --- Effect of Early Acceptance/Migration --- p.61 / Chapter 6.3.3 --- Answer to the Resources Consumption Tradeoff issue --- p.62 / Chapter 6.3.4 --- Effect of Varying Movie Popularity Skewness --- p.64 / Chapter 6.3.5 --- Effect of Varying Replication Threshold --- p.64 / Chapter 6.3.6 --- Comparison of Different Target Node Selection Policies --- p.65 / Chapter 6.4 --- Overall Impact of Dynamic Replication --- p.66 / Chapter 7 --- Comparison with BSR-based Policy --- p.71 / Chapter 8 --- Conclusions --- p.75 / Chapter 8.1 --- Summary --- p.75 / Chapter 8.2 --- Future Research Directions --- p.76 / Bibliography --- p.78
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:cuhk.edu.hk/oai:cuhk-dr:cuhk_321892 |
| Date | January 1997 |
| Contributors | Lie, Wai-Kwok Peter., Chinese University of Hong Kong Graduate School. Division of Computer Science and Engineering. |
| Source Sets | The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, bibliography |
| Format | print, vii, 83 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm. |
| Rights | Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons “Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International” License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) |
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