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Media servers are a special variation of file servers with the requirement to deliver their services within a certain time-frame. This basic requirement of media servers can be analyzed at different levels of hardware and software. Consequently, the range of research issues that contribute to media server design is wide. While many research groups deal with multimedia servers as a database issue, this chapter concentrates on multimedia servers’ content storage and its distribution. We will not consider the information management aspects of these servers.
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Steinmetz, R., Nahrstedt, K. (2004). Media Server. In: Multimedia Systems. X.media.publishing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08878-4_4
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