Multimedia applications place high demands for QoS, performance, and reliability on storage servers and communication networks. These, often stringent, requirements make design of cost-e ective and scalable continuous media CM servers di cult. In particular, the choice of data placement techniques can have a signi cant e ect on the scalability of the CM server and its ability to utilize resources e ciently. In the recent past, a great deal of work has focused on wide" data striping. Another approach to dealing with load imbalance p r oblems is replication. The appropriate compromise between the degree of striping and the degree o f replication is key to the design of scalable CM servers. Thus, the main focus of this paper is a study of scalability characteristics of CM servers as a function of tradeo s between striping and replication.
Chou et al. focus on the scalability of continuous media servers as a function of tradeoffs be- tween striping and replication REF .
Striping doesn't scale: how to achieve scalability for continuous media servers with replication
Proceedings 20th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
Proceedings 20th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems
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