Multimedia Information Storage and Management

1 Disk Scheduling for Continuous Media.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Single Stream Scheduling.- 3 Multi-stream Scheduling.- 4 Utilizing Multiple Disks.- 5 Conclusion.- References.- 2 Placement of Continuous Media in Multi-Zone Disks.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Overview of a Magnetic Disk Drive.- 3 Single Disk Platform.- 4 Configuration Planner.- 5 Performance Evaluation.- 6 Multi-Disk Platform.- 7 Conclusions and Future Research Directions.- Appendix A.- A.1 FIXB vs VARB for HP C2247 Disk.- A.2 Maximum Throughput for Seagate ST31200W Disk.- References.- 3 Storage Hierarchy in Multimedia Servers.- 1 Need for a Storage Hierarchy.- 2 Customer Demand Skew.- 3 Elements of Storage Hierarchy.- 4 Video File Allocation Problem.- 5 Video File Allocation Methodology.- 6 A Video Cost/Performance Estimator Tool.- 7 Cases.- 8 Conclusions.- References.- 4 The Use of Media Characteristics and User Behavior for the Design of Multimedia Servers.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Issues in the Design of a MMIS Server.- 3 Characterizing User Access Behavior.- 4 Summary.- References.- 5 The Fellini Multimedia Storage Server.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Overall Fellini Architecture.- 3 Admission Control Theory.- 4 Cache Management in Fellini.- 5 Fellini Storage Manager.- 6 Application Interface in Fellini.- 7 Fellini and the Real World.- References.- 6 Statistical Modeling and Buffer Allocation for MPEG Streams.- 1 Introduction.- 2 MPEG Video Compression.- 3 Statistical Modeling of MPEG Streams.- 4 Algorithm CLT(E): Buffer Allocation with Exclusive Buffers Only.- 5 Discussion.- References.- 7 Buffer Replacement Algorithms for Multimedia Databases.- 1 Introduction.- 2 System Model.- 3 The BASIC Buffer Replacement Algorithm.- 4 Overhead of BASIC.- 5 The DISTANCE Buffer Replacement Algorithm.- 6 Simulation Results.- 7 Conclusions.-References.- 8 Scheduling Issues in Video-On-Demand Systems.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Viewer Scheduling.- 3 Stream Scheduling.- 4 Disk Copy Scheduling.- 5 Disk Arm Scheduling.- 6 Summary.- References.- 9 Delivering Hypermedia Sessions from a Continuous Media Server.- 1 Introduction.- 2 HM Sessions and CM Servers.- 3 Impact of Conservative Assumptions.- 4 Dynamics of CMFS Session Startup.- 5 Session Requests in an Interactive Hypermedia Environment.- 6 Dynamics of Discrete Media (DM) Scheduling Using CMFS.- 7 User Navigation and Hypermedia Scheduling Model.- 8 Conclusions.- References.- 10 Delivery Scheduling of Multimedia Streams Using Query Scripts.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Scheduling of Delivery Using Query Scripts.- 3 Simulation.- 4 Conclusion.- References.- 11 Session Scheduling and Resource Sharing in Multimedia Systems.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Scheduling Policies.- 3 Server Scheduler Architecture.- 4 Batching and VCR Control.- 5 Hierarchical Scheduling.- 6 Conclusions.- References.- 12 Improving the Interactive Responsiveness in a Video Server.- 1 Introduction.- 2 The Problem.- 3 Stream Scheduling.- 4 Summary.- References.- 13 Modeling and Transformation of Multimedia Data.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Survey of Related Work.- 3 The Architecture and the Transformation Approach.- 4 Multimedia Schema Models and Transformation Algorithms.- 5 An Example of the Transformations.- 6 The Transformation from M CS to Network Primitives.- 7 Multimedia Object Exchange Manager (OEM).- 8 Implementation of the Experimental System.- 9 Conclusion and Future Work.- Appendix A Object Exchange Format.- Appendix B Object Exchange Format: Backus-Naur Form (BNF) Syntax.- References.- 14 Architecture and Storage Model for Multimedia Documents.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Structuring Traditional Documents.- 3 A Multimedia Document Architecture.- 4 Multimedia Document Creation Process.- 5 Global Logical Structure.- 6 Global Layout Structure.- 7 Multimedia Document Playback.- 8 Scenario Verification and Layout Completion.- 9 Multimedia Document Database System.- 10 Related Work.- 11 Conclusion.- References.- 15 Temporal Modeling and Intermedia Synchronization for Presentation of Multimedia Streams.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Expressive Power of the Temporal Model.- 3 The Temporal Reference Framework.- 4 Temporal Representation.- 5 Examples of Multimedia Temporal Models.- 6 Fuzzy Relation Language (FRL).- 7 Discussion.- References.- 16 Integrated Database Services for Multimedia Presentations.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Concepts for the Integration of Multimedia Data.- 3 A Multimedia DBMS Prototype.- 4 Applications.- 5 Conclusion.- References.- 17 The Object-Oriented Development of Multimedia Information Systems.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Background.- 3 Architecture.- 4 Applications.- 5 Conclusions and Future Directions.- References.