Multiple-server movie-retrieval strategies for distributed multimedia applications: A play-while-retrieve approach

IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part A:Systems and Humans

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 786-802

  Chen, Long ^b   Veeravalli, Bharadwaj ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Access time; Play while retrieve; Retrieval strategy; Video on demand

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MOTION PICTURES; MULTIMEDIA SERVICES; SERVERS; VIDEO ON DEMAND; WEB SERVICES;

ACCESS TIME; BUFFER MANAGEMENT; PLAY-WHILE-RETRIEVE (PWR) PLAYBACK STRATEGY; RETRIEVAL STRATEGY;

IMAGE RETRIEVAL;

EID: 33947177552     PISSN: 10834427     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSMCA.2005.851341     Document Type: Article

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