Designing an on-demand multimedia service advances in networking and storage technology will soon make it possible to deliver the services of a videotape rental store on a metropolitan-area network

IEEE Communications Magazine

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 56-64

  Rangan, P Venkat ^a,b   Vin, Harrick M ^a,b   Ramanathan, Srinivas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS - METROPOLITAN AREA NETWORKS;

ADMISSION CONTROL ALGORITHM; MULTIMEDIA ON-DEMAND INFORMATION SERVICE; MULTIUSER MULTIMEDIA SERVER; SYNCHRONOUS PLAYBACK;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0026886795     PISSN: 01636804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/35.144778     Document Type: Article

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