Lee, Jack Scalable Continuous Media Streaming Systems Architecture, Design, Analysis and Implementation
1. Edition - May 2005 115.- Euro 2005. 394 Pages, Hardcover - Handbook/Reference Book - ISBN-10: 0-470-85754-4 ISBN-13: 978-0-470-85754-0 - John Wiley & Sons
Short description Written by leading experts in the field, this highly focused look at the state of the art in continuous media streaming focuses on the architecture, design, analysis,. and implementation of the system.
From the contents Contents.
Preface.
Acknowledgements.
Part I: Fundamentals.
1. Introduction.
2. Media Compression.
3. Continuous Media Storage and Retrieval.
4. Soft Scheduling.
5. Reliable and Fault-Tolerant Storage Systems.
6. Media Data Streaming.
7. Streaming Variable Bit-Rate Media Streams.
8. Adaptive Media Streaming.
Part II: Parallel Server Architectures.
9. Taxonomy and Architectural Alternatives.
10. A Concurrent-Push Parallel Server Architecture.
11. Fault-Tolerant Algorithms for the Concurrent-Push Architecture.
12. A Staggered-Push Parallel Server Architecture.
13. FEC versus PRT.
14. Algorithms for Server Rebuild.
15. Algorithms for System Expansion.
Part III: Multicast Streaming Architectures.
16. Overview of Multicast Streaming.
17. Closed-Loop Algorithms.
18. Open-Loop Architecture.
19. A Hybrid Architecture.
20. Efficient Server Design for Hybrid Multicast Streaming.
