ISSUES IN STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL OF MULTIMEDIA DATA

As the proliferation of multimedia systems continues in diverse applic ation areas, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the performance of the I/O subsystem is a critical limiting factor in the usefulness of such systems. This has spurred extensive research to discover and d esign efficient and robust I/O systems for the storage and retrieval o f multimedia data. To mitigate the effects of the I/O bottleneck in mu ltimedia application environments, we must employ novel technologies a nd efficient algorithms, and we must use available resources carefully . This paper identifies some significant issues involved and presents a survey of the techniques developed or proposed during recent years t o make multimedia I/O more efficient.