Design of a Variable Bit Rate Continuous Media File Server for an ATM Network

This paper describes the design and implementation of a le server for variable bit rate continuous media. Most continuous media le servers have been designed for constant bit rate streams. We address the problem of building a server where each stream may have a diierent bit rate and, more importantly, where the bit rate within a single stream may vary considerably. Such servers will be come increasingly more important because of Variable Bit Rate (VBR) compression standards such as is possbile with MPEG-2.