• The KIPS Transactions:PartA
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• v.8A no.4
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• pp.287-292
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• 2001

Multimedia service systems should have efficient capacity to serve the growing clients and new data. In the general streaming services, users can endure the small amount of time delay at the beginning of service. But they want to have good quality of service. A streaming server tries to transfer video files to clients from a repository of files in real time. The server must guarantee concurrent and uninterrupted delivery of each video stream requested from clients. To achieve its purpose, many stream servers adopt multi-processors, sufficient memory, and RAID or SAN in their systems. In this paper, we propose a Linux-based parallel media streaming server. It is superior to the other systems in the storing structure, fault-tolerance, and service capacity. Since this system supports the web interlace, users can operate easily through the www. This system uses unique striping policy to distribute multimedia files into the parallel storage nodes. If a service request occurs, each storage node transmits striped files concurrently to the client. Its performance is better than the single media streaming service because of the parallel architecture.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.8C no.6
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• pp.765-774
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• 2001

In this paper, we proposed the striping policy for the storage nodes in the Linux-based parallel media stream server. We newly developed a storage clustering architecture, and named it as a system RAID architecture. In this system, many storage cluster nodes are grouped to operate as a single server. This system uses unique striping policy to distribute multimedia files into the parallel storage nodes. If a service request occurs, each storage cluster node transmits striped files concurrently to the clients. This scheme can provide the fair distribution of the preprocessing load in all storage cluster nodes. The feature of this system is a relative striping policy based on the file types, service types, and the number of storage nodes to provide the best service.

• Proceedings of the IEEK Conference
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• 2005.11a
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• pp.1105-1108
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• 2005

Media service model is divided into 3 models that are Client Pull, Server Push, and IPP(Interleaving Pull & Push) model. In most single VOD(Video On Demand) environment, Client Pull model was sufficient to play the movie Because most media contents has a low bitrate and resolution. But according to an increment of the demand of the high definition media, Client Pull model is not sufficient. Parallel VOD environment is made of several of VOD servers and provides the parallel media stream simultaneously for one client. We compared and analyzed the performance of service models with respect to network delay and data size in buffer in the single and parallel VOD environment and we found that IPP service model keeps the least network delay and stable client buffer state in the parallel VOD environment.