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%R 96-23
%U ms.ps
%A Wu, Min-You
%T Scheduling for Interactive Operations in Parallel Video Servers
%D December 12, 1996
%I Department of Computer Science, SUNY Buffalo
%K  parallel video servers, real-time scheduling, interactive operations, fast forward, Quality-of-Service.
%X Providing efficient support for interactive operations such as 
fast-forward and fast-backward is essential in video-on-demand 
and other multimedia server systems. 
In this paper, we present two basic approaches for scheduling 
interactive operations, the prefetching approach and the 
grouping approach. 
Scheduling algorithms are presented for both fine-grain and 
coarse-grain data blocks. 
These algorithms can precisely schedule video streams for both normal 
playout and interactive operations.