Fault Tolerant Video on Demand Services Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:5795450, abstract = {This paper describes a highly available distributed video on demand (VoD) service which is inherently fault tolerant. The VoD service is provided by multiple servers that reside at different sites. New servers may be brought up \&\#034;on the fly\&\#034; to alleviate the load on other servers. When a server crashes it is replaced by another server in a transparent way; the clients are unaware of the change of service provider. In test runs of our VoD service prototype, such transitions are not noticeable to a human observer who uses the service. Our VoD service uses a sophisticated flow control mechanism and supports adjustment of the video quality to client capabilities. It does not assume any proprietary network technology: It uses commodity hardware and publicly available network technologies (e.g., TCP/IP, ATM). Our service may run on any machine connected to the Internet. The service exploits a group communication system as a building block for high availability. The utilization of group commu...}, author = {Anker, Tal and Dolev, Danny and Keidar, Idit}, booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems}, citeulike-article-id = {5795450}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.8683}, keywords = {1999, fault-tolerant, group\_communication, video\_on\_demand}, pages = {244--252}, posted-at = {2009-09-17 15:03:26}, priority = {0}, title = {Fault Tolerant Video on Demand Services}, url = {http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.8683}, year = {1999} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:5795450 L3 - citeulike-article-id:5795450 N2 - This paper describes a highly available distributed video on demand (VoD) service which is inherently fault tolerant. The VoD service is provided by multiple servers that reside at different sites. New servers may be brought up "on the fly" to alleviate the load on other servers. When a server crashes it is replaced by another server in a transparent way; the clients are unaware of the change of service provider. In test runs of our VoD service prototype, such transitions are not noticeable to a human observer who uses the service. Our VoD service uses a sophisticated flow control mechanism and supports adjustment of the video quality to client capabilities. It does not assume any proprietary network technology: It uses commodity hardware and publicly available network technologies (e.g., TCP/IP, ATM). Our service may run on any machine connected to the Internet. The service exploits a group communication system as a building block for high availability. The utilization of group commu... EP - 252 TI - Fault Tolerant Video on Demand Services T2 - In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems SP - 244 KW - 1999 KW - fault-tolerant KW - group_communication KW - video_on_demand AU - Anker, Tal AU - Dolev, Danny AU - Keidar, Idit PY - 1999/// UR - http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.24.8683 ER -