Efficient and dependable multimedia data delivery service in World Wide Web environment
Qutaibah Marwan Malluhi, G.S. Jung, W.E. Johnston · 2003
Multimedia data is characterized by large objects that require high-bandwidth. This paper presents technique that enables efficient and dependable data storage and delivery of large multimedia objects in the World Wide Web environment. The proposed approach strips data into blocks that are distributed over multiple Web servers. Data distribution is transparent to users. The parallelism of multiple Web servers is exploited to achieve high data rates. The paper presents two data coding techniques to achieve high dependability.