Multimedia information storage and retrieval techniques and technologies /

• Main Author: Tse, Philip K. C.
• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Multimedia systems.; Information storage and retrieval systems.; Information resources management.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess

Since multimedia systems are required to store and manipulate a variety of media types -- including text, graphics, images, sound, audio, and video among many others -- applications such as video-on-demand systems, interactive television, and video conferencing are becoming widely available at warp...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Multimedia information
• Storage system architectures
• Data compression techniques and standards
• Statistical placement on disks
• Striping on disks
• Replication placement on disks
• Constraint allocation on disks
• Tertiary storage devices
• Contiguous placement on hierarchical storage systems
• Statistical placement on hierarchical storage systems
• Striping on hierarchical storage systems
• Constraint allocation on hierarchical storage systems
• Scheduling methods for disk requests
• Feasibility conditions of concurrent streams
• Scheduling methods for request streams
• Staging methods
• Time slicing method
• Normal pipelining
• Space efficient pipelining
• Segmented pipelining
• Memory caching methods
• Stream dependent caching
• Cooperative web caching.