This book will undoubtedly satisfy the needs of application developers, server designers, integrators, and service providers, as it provides end-to-end, top-down coverage: from application-specific issues to low-level components. Inside, the authors offer specific design, development, and implementation approaches that take into account the complexity of the environments in which multimedia servers operate. You'll learn which techniques are best suited for different kinds of applications and different kinds of networks. You'll master the challenges associated with resource scheduling, collaborative computing, session set-up, and distributed storage. Most importantly, you'll discover how to put all of these solutions to work as part of a coherent strategy aimed at exploiting economies of scale and meeting quality of service requirements.
* Presents optimized design algorithms developed by the authors and other leading researchers.
* Deals comprehensively with the systems supporting the large-scale storage, retrieval, and distribution of audio and video data.
* Balances the coverage of current technologies with forward-looking discussions to help you devise a sustainable, evolvable solution.
* Covers key issues in video-on-demand and other multimedia systems: resource scheduling, local caching, interactivity, architectural strategies, and more.
Dr. Dinkar Sitaram is a Chief Technologist at Hewlett Packard, Systems Technology and Software Division, in Bangalore, India. He is one of the key individuals responsible for driving file systems and storage strategy, including cloud storage. His R&D efforts have resulted in over a dozen granted US patents. He is co-author of Multimedia Servers: Applications, Environments and Design. Morgan Kaufmann, 2000. Dr. Sitaram received his Ph. D from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and his B. Tech from IIT Kharagpur. He joined as a research staff member in IBM's Research Division at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. At IBM, Dr. Sitaram received an IBM Outstanding Innovation Award (an IBM Corporate Award) as well as IBM Research Division Award and several IBM Invention Achievement Awards for his patents and research. He also received outstanding paper awards for his work, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of High-Speed Networking.
Subsequently, he returned to India as Director of the Technology Group at Novell Corp. Bangalore. The group developed many innovative products in addition to filing for many patents and standards proposals. Dr. Sitaram received Novell's Employee of the Year award. Before joining HP, Dr. Sitaram was CTO at Andiamo Systems India (a storage networking startup later acquired by Cisco), responsible for architecture and technical direction of an advanced storage management solution.
