Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Multimedia information -- Storage system architectures -- Data compression techniques and standards -- Statistical placement on disks -- Striping on disks -- Replication placement on disks -- Constraint allocation on disks -- Tertiary storage devices -- Contiguous placement on hierarchical storage systems -- Statistical placement on hierarchical storage systems -- Striping on hierarchical storage systems -- Constraint allocation on hierarchical storage systems -- Scheduling methods for disk requests -- Feasibility conditions of concurrent streams -- Scheduling methods for request streams -- Staging methods -- Time slicing method -- Normal pipelining -- Space efficient pipelining -- Segmented pipelining -- Memory caching methods -- Stream dependent caching -- Cooperative web caching.

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Since multimedia systems are required to store and manipulate a variety of media types -- including text, graphics, images, sound, audio, and video among many others -- applications such as video-on-demand systems, interactive television, and video conferencing are becoming widely available at warp speed. This presents new challenges and obstacles to those in the multimedia industry. This book offers solutions to these challenges, providing data placement techniques, scheduling methods, caching techniques and emerging characteristics of multimedia information.

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