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Synchronization-Oriented placement and retrieval strategies for delay-sensitive media streams

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Multimedia data include text, image, audio and video, etc. Recent developments and advances in the areas of mass storage technology and high speed networks make it feasible for multimedia computing systems to offer services such as multimedia e-mail, teleconferencing and various vivid games. The storage and retrieval of multimedia data are two of the most important technologies in the future multimedia systems. This paper analyzes the synchronization requirements of the delay-sensitive media streams, classifies the synchronization hierarchically and proposes several effective strategies for the intra-media and inter-media data placement problems.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou

    Zhao Yu & Shi Jiaoying

  2. Artificial Intelligence Institute, Zhejiang University, 310027, Hangzhou

    He Zhijun

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This paper was supported by the Fundamental Research Fund No. 93J6A.047 granted by the Science and Engineering Committee of Defence Department and the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

Zhao Yu was born in Shanghai, China,in 1967. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Chongqing University in 1985 and 1992, respectively. Currently, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the State Key Laboratory of CAD & CG, Zhejiang University. His research interests are in multimedia computing system with an emphasis on multimedia synchronization and 3D realistic acoustic rendering.

Shi Jiaoying was born in 1937. He directs the State Key Laboratory of CAD & CG at Zhejiang University and is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Zhejiang University. He serves on the Editorial Boards of Computer Graphics and several journals published in China. His research interests include computer graphics, CAD, multimedia computing, ViSC and virtual reality.

He Zhijun was born in 1924. He established the Department of Computer Science, Zhejinag University in 1970's. He is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Zhejinag University. His research interests include artificial intelligence and software engineering.

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Zhao, Y., Shi, J. & He, Z. Synchronization-Oriented placement and retrieval strategies for delay-sensitive media streams. J. of Comput. Sci. & Technol. 11, 150–160 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02943530

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