Video IBPster

Scott Atchley, Stephen Soltesz, James S. Plank, and Micah Beck.

Technical Report CS-02-490, University of Tennessee Department of Computer Science, October 31, 2002.

This paper was published in 2003 in Future Generation Computing Systems. Please see this link for complete citation information of that paper, and please cite that paper in preference to this technical report

Available via anonymous ftp to cs.utk.edu in pub/plank/papers/CS-02-490.pdf

Abstract

At iGrid 2002, members of the Logistical Computing and Internetworking Lab (LoCI) had two goals. The first was to present an application, Video IBPster, built using the tools of the Network Storage Stack that delivers DVD-quality video without dropping frames, without losing data and without specialized multi-media streaming servers. The Video IBPster demo easily played MPEG-2 video files encoded at bit-rates up to 15 Megabits/second (Mbs). The second goal was to determine performance limits when using multiple, untuned TCP streams to retrieve a striped and replicated file across a long network. Since tools built using the Network Storage Stack allow striped downloads from multiple servers in parallel and since the client machines were all connected to Gigabit Ethernet (GigE), we hoped that we would observe a linear scale up of throughput when downloading from multiple servers. Although we did see increased throughput, it was not linear.

Citation Information

Plain Text:

.techreport     aspb:02:vi
author          S. Atchley and S. Soltesz and J. S. Plank and M. Beck
title           Video {IBPster}
number          CS-02-490
institution     University of Tennessee
month           October
year            2002
where           http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/papers/CS-02-490.html

Bibtex:

@TECHREPORT{aspb:02:vi,
        author = "S. Atchley and S. Soltesz and J. S. Plank and M. Beck",
        title = "Video {IBPster}",
        number = "CS-02-490",
        institution = "University of Tennessee",
        month = "October",
        year = "2002",
        where = "http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~jplank/plank/papers/CS-02-490.html"
}