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An architecture for a scalable video-on-demand server network with quality-of-service guarantees

Burchard et al., 2000

Document ID
16996255173723035406
Author
Burchard L
Lüling R
Publication year
Publication venue
International Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services

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In this paper, we describe an architecture for a scalable distributed server management system which is capable of managing media assets stored on large-scale media server networks. In addition to the functionality for a decentralized management of the whole server …
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