Document Type

Technical Report

Publication Date

9-1999

Subjects

Computer network architectures, Multimedia systems, Telecommunication -- Traffic -- Management, Adaptive computing systems, Computer networks -- Scalability

Abstract

Applications with real-rate progress requirements, such as mediastreaming systems, are difficult to deploy in shared heterogenous environments such as the Internet. On the Internet, mediastreaming systems must be capable of trading off resource requirements against the quality of the media streams they deliver, in order to match wide-ranging dynamic variations in bandwidth between servers and clients. Since quality requirements tend to be user- and task-specific, mechanisms for capturing quality of service requirements and mapping them to appropriate resource-level adaptation policies are required. In this paper, we describe a general approach for automatically mapping user-level quality of service specifications onto resource consumption scaling policies. Quality of service specifications are given through utility functions, and priority packet dropping for layered media streams is the resource scaling technique. The approach emphasizes simple mechanisms, yet facilitates fine-grained policy-driven adaptation over a wide-range of bandwidth levels. We demonstrate the approach in a streamingvideo player that supports user-tailorable quality adaptation policies both for matching its resource consumption requirements to the capabilities of heterogeneous clients, and for responding to dynamic variations in system and network load.

Description

Oregon Graduate Institute of Science & Technology Technical Report CSE-99-011, September, 1999.

Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10592

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