Multimedia Storage Servers: A Tutorial and Survey

Multimedia Storage Servers: A Tutorial

Multimedia storage servers provide access to multimedia objects including text, images, audio, and video. The design of such servers fundamentally di ers from conventional servers due to: (1) the real-time storage and retrieval requirements, 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 architecture...

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...

Parallel Video Servers: A Tutorial

Clustered Multimedia Servers: Architectures and Storage Systems

This paper presents an overview of the recent advances on the design of clustered multimedia servers. It is focused on the following aspects: server architecture, media data organization, real-time stream scheduling and admission control algorithms. For the architecture, we give a taxonomy regarding the various structures of cluster components, and survey over 20 existing server systems, either...

Storage Systems Support for Multimedia Applications

Lately, on-demand streaming multimedia applications have become very popular. Contemporary personal computers can handle the load imposed by such multimedia applications on the client side, but the potentially high number of concurrent users accessing a server represents a generic problem. The multimedia storage system is responsible for storage and retrieval of multimedia data from storage dev...