Video on demand (VoD) services are becoming more and more popular today. As high bandwidth communication infrastructure is being established in many countries around the world, high bandwidth communication lines will reach millions of family in the near future. Due to the increasing improvement of communication technology, more and more families enjoy the VoD services which are provided by telecommunication companies and cable TV provider via the Internet. In such a case, scalability and fault tolerance will be the key issues.
We propose an architecture for VoD services which is based on multi-server circumstance. In our proposed architecture, each movie is replicated on a subset of the servers. When a server crashes or disconnects from its clients, it is replaced by another server in a transparent way. Regarding of load balancing problem, clients are also migrated from one server to another when a new server is brought up. The benefit of our service is to use common hardware and general network technologies (e.g. TCP/IP). In addition, we provide a machine-independent environment to let the servers and clients execute on any machine through the network.
Furthermore, we can get the media players from a web browser by utilizing the cross-platform characteristics of Java. The client host does not need to install any relevant applications. Since Java Media Framework (JMF) provides a unified architecture and messaging protocol for managing the acquisition, processing, and delivery of time-based media data. It can support many standard media content types, such as AIFF, AVI, MIDI, MPEG, QuickTime, and WAV. Using JMF, we can create applets and applications to present, manipulate, and store time-based media.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0710101-160027 |
| Date | 10 July 2001 |
| Creators | Tsaur, Gong-Ming |
| Contributors | Tong-Yee Lee, Chungnan Lee, I-Chang Jou, Yung-Nien Sun, Kuo-Sheng Cheng |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0710101-160027 |
| Rights | campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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