An application-level QoS comparison of inter-destination synchronization schemes for continuous media multicasting

Author

Nunome, Toshiro ; Tasaka, Shuji

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Nagoya Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

7

fYear

2003

fDate

1-5 Dec. 2003

Firstpage

3602

Abstract

The paper presents an application-level QoS comparison of three inter-destination synchronization schemes: the master-slave destination scheme; the synchronization maestro scheme; the distributed control scheme. The inter-destination synchronization adjusts the output timing among destinations in a multicast group for live audio and video streaming over the Internet/intranets. We compare the application-level QoS of these schemes by simulation, in which we assume an intranet. From the comparison, we clarify their features and find the best scheme in the environment. The simulation result shows that the best scheme depends on the network configurations and the acceptable inter-destination synchronization quality of the applications.

Keywords

Internet; distributed control; intranets; multicast communication; multimedia communication; quality of service; synchronisation; visual communication; Internet; QoS; continuous media multicasting; distributed control scheme; inter-destination synchronization schemes; intranets; live audio streaming; live video streaming; master-slave destination scheme; multicast group; network configuration; output timing; synchronization maestro scheme; Clocks; Communication system control; Computer science; Delay; Distributed control; Protocols; Quality of service; Streaming media; Synchronization; Timing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 2003. GLOBECOM '03. IEEE

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7974-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.2003.1258906

Filename

1258906