System architecture of a multimedia streaming server for the next generation internet

Abstract

Inherited from the 20th century, the Internet is playing the key role in the 21st century of information age. The core elements of using information through the Internet are computers for information processing and communication networks for information transfer. Also, the information has the form of multimedia streams such as sound and moving pictures in addition to traditional character type data. In this paper, we are proposing an efficient multimedia streaming server in terms of the design concepts and the system architecture for the next generation Internet. We also present the implementation result for the server. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.