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For a video-on-demand computer system, we propose a scheme which balances the load on the disks, thereby helping to solve a performance problem crucial to achieving maximal video throughput. Our load-balancing scheme consists of two components. The static component determines good assignments of videos to groups of striped disks. The dynamic component uses these assignments, and features a “DASD dancing” algorithm which performs real-time disk scheduling in an effective manner. Our scheme works synergistically with disk striping. We examine the performance of the proposed algorithm via simulation experiments.
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Wolf, J., Yu, P. & Shachnai, H. Disk load balancing for video-on-demand systems. Multimedia Systems 5, 358–370 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005300050067
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s005300050067