García-Martínez, AlbertoMolano, AnastasioSánchez, DavidViña, Ángel2008-08-262008-08-261997-09EUROMICRO 97: New Frontiers of Information Technology. Short Contributions. Proceedings of the 23rd Euromicro Conference, Sep. 1997, p. 68-730-8186-8215-9https://hdl.handle.net/10016/285623rd Euromicro Conference EUROMICRO 97: 'New Frontiers of Information Technology', Budapest, Hungary, 1-4 Sept 1997Memory management is a key issue when designing cost effective video on demand servers. State of the art techniques, like double buffering, allocate buffers in a per stream basis and require huge amounts of memory. We propose a buffering policy, namely Single Pair of Buffers, that dramatically reduces server memory requirements by reserving a pair of buffers per storage device. By considering in detail disk and network interaction, we have also identified the particular conditions under which this policy can be successfully applied to engineer video on demand servers. Reduction factors of two orders of magnitude compared to the double buffering approach can be obtained. Current disk and network parameters make this technique feasible.application/pdfengBuffer storageInteractive televisionMultimedia systemsStorage managementconference proceedingsTelecomunicaciones10.1109/EMSCNT.1997.658440open access