Tabbycat: An inexpensive scalable server for video-on-demand

IEEE International Conference on Communications

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 896-900

  Thirumalai, Karthik ^a   Pâris, Jehan François ^a   Long, Darrell D E ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CUSTOMER SATISFACTION; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); TELEVISION BROADCASTING; VIDEO ON DEMAND;

SCALABLE SERVERS;

SERVERS;

EID: 0038307624     PISSN: 05361486     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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