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Resource reservation is required to guarantee delivery of continuous media data from a server across a network for continuous playback by a client. This paper addresses the characterization of the network bandwidth requirements of Variable Bit Rate data streams and the corresponding admission control mechanism at the server. We show that a characterization which sends data early, making intelligent use of client buffer space, reduces the amount of network bandwidth reserved per stream without creating any start-up latency. The results of performance experiments in a Continuous Media File Server find that operation with requests arriving over time can deliver up to 90% of the network bandwidth. The experiments also show that a system designer can configure a server so that the network and disk bandwidth can scale together.
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Makaroff, D., Neufeld, G., Hutchinson, N. (1999). Network Bandwidth Allocation and Admission Control for a Continuous Media File Server. In: Diaz, M., Owezarski, P., Sénac, P. (eds) Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Telecommunication Services. IDMS 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1718. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48109-5_27
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