A Scalable Parallel Video Server on Shared Ethernet

To increase the throughput of parallel video server interconnected by a shared network environment, such as Ethernet, elimination of network collision is highly desired. A special mechanism, serialized con ict-free scheduling, is presented in the paper. Performance study of (1) server-push video severs with con ictfree scheduling algorithm and serialized con ict-free scheduling mechanisms, (2) and a client-pull video server with no scheduling algorithm is conducted on the top of Non-Uniform-Network Access network environment. The experimental result shows that the server with serialized con ict-free scheduling mechanism can support up to 50% more clients than the other two on shared Ethernet.