Dynamic Network Load Balancing in Large Scale Multimedia Systems

A large-scale multimedia storage system (LMSS), which consists of a single server or multiple servers, manages the storage and retrieval of multimedia data from disk media. As a networked multimedia service is expected to serve a large pool of clients, it is impossible for a single server to meet all multimedia requirements such as continuous-time presentation, network bandwidth, etc. In a large-scale multimedia storage system where client requests for different multimedia objects may have diff ...