Title :
Dynamic load balancing for distributed movie based browser systems
Author :
Hiraiwa, Atsunobu ; Komatsu, Naohisa ; Komiya, Kazumi ; Ikeda, Hinata
Author_Institution :
Atsugi Res. Centre, Telecommun. Adv. Organ. of Japan, Kanagawa, Japan
fDate :
31 May-3 Jun 1998
Abstract :
This paper describes the dynamic load balancing of distributed movie based browser systems, which can visually be navigated by the integration of movies and linking-information. The linking-information indicates replicated multimedia information (such as sounds, videos and multiple super high definition (SHD) pictures) stored in each server on the network. Proposed new dynamic media partitioning performs the load-balancing of the respective server and network for multimedia information. The proposed method efficiently uses the servers and network, reserving and allocating the bandwidths of the transmission lines between a client and servers on the network, monitoring the load each server, and effectively partitioning continuous multimedia information. This method provides a solution to the problem caused by lack of the bandwidths that the server supplies to the client, or by lack of the bandwidths of the transmission lines between a client and a server on the network. The problem is derived from the deficiency of the throughput (64 Mbit/s) for lines with required high bandwidths (192 Mbit/s), long delay times (the round-trip time measures 8 ms) and a window size of 64 Kbytes. Improved dynamic media partitioning including a round-trip time parameter provides high throughput of 192 Mbits/sec by partitioning and allocating the load to 3 servers, giving a solution to this problem
Keywords :
Internet; client-server systems; computer architecture; distributed algorithms; multimedia communication; network servers; synchronisation; bandwidths; continuous multimedia information; delay times; distributed movie based browser; dynamic load balancing; dynamic media partitioning; integration of movies; linking-information; load-balancing; multiple super high definition pictures; parallel execution; replicated multimedia information; round-trip time; Bandwidth; Delay effects; Load management; Monitoring; Motion pictures; Navigation; Network servers; Throughput; Transmission lines; Videos;
Conference_Titel :
Circuits and Systems, 1998. ISCAS '98. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Monterey, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-4455-3
DOI :
10.1109/ISCAS.1998.698767