Title

A novel data caching scheme for multimedia servers

Authors

Authors

J. Z. Wang;R. K. Guha

Comments

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Abbreviated Journal Title

Simul. Pract. Theory

Keywords

multimedia servers; pipelining; data caching scheme; buffer management; disk I/O bandwidth; Computer Science, Interdisciplinary Applications; Computer Science, ; Software Engineering

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a Bi-directional Fragmental Pipelining (BFP) technique and its variable buffer size data-caching scheme BFP(V) to reduce the disk I/O bandwidth requirement for multimedia servers. Our mathematical analysis shows that the BFP technique is superior to the traditional unidirectional pipelining technique in terms of memory buffer space requirement. We further demonstrate that the memory buffer management using BFP(V) is better than that of using the fixed buffer size approach BFP(F). We have mathematically proved that BFP(V) saves more disk I/O bandwidth than BFP(F) does using the same memory buffer space. Our simulation results have quantitatively confirmed our analysis. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Simulation Practice and Theory

Volume

9

Issue/Number

3-5

Publication Date

1-1-2002

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Language

English

First Page

193

Last Page

213

WOS Identifier

WOS:000176090000006

ISSN

0928-4869

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