Multimedia Storage Servers: A Tutorial

Multimedia Storage Servers: A Tutorial and Survey

Multimedia storage servers provide access to multimedia objects including text, images, audio, and video. The design of such servers fundamentally diiers from conventional servers due to: (1) the real-time storage and retrieval, as well as (2) the large storage space and data transfer rate requirements of digital multimedia. In this paper, we present an overview of the architectures and algorit...

Parallel Video Servers: A Tutorial

Elicitation, Recast, and Meta-Linguistic Feedback in Form-Focused Exchanges: Effects of Feedback Modality on Multimedia Grammar Instruction

This research explores the effects of three computer-mediated feedback modalities, that is, elicitation, recast, and meta-linguistics, on the learning of English participial, gerund, and infinitival phrases among Iranian intermediate-level EFL learners. The overriding focus of the present study was to investigate whether different types of feedback given through form-focused computer-human exch...

Using IDA for Performance Improvement in Multimedia Servers

In order to meet the new requirements of multimedia applications, high-performance storage devices are needed with a very high cost per storage unit. However, if the access ow has particular requirements it is possible to adopt speci c data storage and management algorithms which can optimize the performance of traditional systems, thus allowing them to be used in multimedia servers. The paper ...

A scalable architecture for multimedia storage

In this paper we present a multimedia storage architecture that exhibits a high degree of scalability by exploiting the scalable properties of fast packed switched networks and scalable compression technologies. Storage scalability is achieved by the dynamic replication of high performance storage instances which store multimedia files as compressed components of a scalable compression algorith...