<title>Design of a multimedia storage server</title>

Abstract

This paper examines the requirements for a large multimedia storage system, such as one for a movie-on-demand service. It presents the architecture for a storage system based on these requirements. The paper then presents a scheme for the organization, placement, and retrieval of multimedia data from the server. The data organization and retrieval schemes are analyzed and it is shown that their performance is superior to other schemes found in the literature.