Encyclopedia of E-Commerce, E-Government, and Mobile Commerce 2006
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-799-7.ch133
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Multimedia Proxy Servers

Abstract: On the Internet, multimedia objects are stored in content servers. The clients behind some proxy servers are located over a wide area network (WAN) far from the content servers (Figure 1). When a client accesses multimedia objects from a content server, the content server must either allocate sufficient disk and network resources to multicast or unicast the objects to the client (Ma & Shin, 2002). Otherwise, it rejects the client. Thus, the popular content server becomes the bottleneck in delivering multim… Show more

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