Title :
An efficient algorithm for the video server selection problem
Author :
Low, Chor Ping ; Yu, Hongtao ; Ng, Jim Mee ; Lin, Qingping ; Atif, Yacine
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Nanyang Technol. Univ., Singapore
Abstract :
This paper addresses the problem of video server selection in a distributed video-on-demand system. The objective of the problem is to balance the load among video servers and to minimize the delay for the video requests to be served. In order to achieve this objective, a near optimal assignment algorithm is proposed for video server selection. Empirical study shows that our proposed algorithm is able to achieve good load balancing performance as compared to some landmark algorithms
Keywords :
delays; minimisation; video on demand; video servers; VoD; delay; distributed video-on-demand system; load balancing performance; minimization; near optimal assignment algorithm; video requests; video server selection problem; Application software; Computer science education; Costs; Delay; High-speed networks; Load management; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Telecommunication switching; Video sharing;
Conference_Titel :
Global Telecommunications Conference, 2000. GLOBECOM '00. IEEE
Conference_Location :
San Francisco, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-6451-1
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2000.891846
