Synchronization-Oriented Placement and Retrieval Strategies for Delay-Sensitive Media Streams

Multimedia data include text, image, audio and video, etc. Recent deve-lopments and advances in the areas of mass storage technology and high speed networks make it feasible for multimedia computing systems to offer services such as multimedia e-mail, teleconferencing and various vivid games. The stor-age and retrieval of multimedia data are two of the most important technologies in the future multimedia systems. This paper analyzes the synchronization re-quirements of the delay-sensitive media streams, cla…