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%A Sreenivas Gollapudi and Aidong Zhang
%T NetMedia: A Client-Server Distributed Multimedia Database Environment
%D April 04, 1996
%I Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo
%X Advances in multimedia computing technologies offer new approaches to 
support on-line accesses to information from a variety of sources such 
as video clips, audio, images, and books.  A client-server distributed 
multimedia system would be a practical approach to support such 
functionalities.  In this paper, we present the design and implementation 
of a client-server distributed multimedia database environment that 
can be used to support large digital libraries.  System architecture 
and design are described.  Server functionalities, including client 
scheduling, data buffering and admission control, are investigated. 
A client request can only be admitted if both the quality-of-service 
(QoS) requirements from the client and the upper bound on total 
buffer consumption at the server are maintained.