Title
Multimedia resource management in OS/390 LAN Server
Abstract
In a multimedia server, resource reservation is critical for guaranteeing jitter-free delivery of video. In this paper, we describe the resource manager component of the OS/390™ LAN Server (video server) that implements resource reservation. The resource manager functions can be divided into three categories: (1) the system management functions that allow arbitrary multimedia resources to be dynamically defined, undefined, and calibrated, and their capacities monitored remotely via the Simple Network Management Protocol, (2) the operational functions that allow video streams to reserve and release resources for supporting playback without explicit specification of the needed resources, and (3) the real-time data import function that places videos on the storage devices so as to balance the load among the devices after making the necessary space and bandwidth reservations. We finally discuss research issues to exploit economies of scale.
Year
DOI
Venue
1997
10.1147/sj.363.0393
IBM Systems Journal
Keywords
Field
DocType
multimedia resource management,lan server
Reservation,Video server,Resource management,File server,Computer science,Computer network,Exploit,Local area network,Systems management,Multimedia,Operating system,Simple Network Management Protocol
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
36
3
0018-8670
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.37
12
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Asit Dan12027412.72
Dulin, S.220.37
Marcotte, S.320.37
Dinkar Sitaram4973123.66