Effect of packet scheduling algorithms on media synchronization quality in the Internet

Author

Ito, Kenji ; Tasaka, Shuji ; Ishibashi, Yutaka

Author_Institution

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

Volume

9

fYear

2001

fDate

2001

Firstpage

2865

Abstract

This paper studies effect of packet scheduling algorithms at routers on media synchronization quality in live audio and video transmission by experiment. In the experiment, we deal with four packet scheduling algorithms: first-in first-out, priority queueing, class-based queueing and weighted fair queueing. We assess the synchronization quality of both intra-stream and inter-stream with and without media synchronization control. The paper clarifies the features of each algorithm from a media synchronization point of view. A comparison of the experimental results shows that weighted fair queueing is the most efficient packet scheduling algorithm for continuous media among the four

Keywords

Internet; multimedia communication; packet switching; performance evaluation; queueing theory; synchronisation; telecommunication control; telecommunication network routing; visual communication; Internet; class-based queueing; continuous media; first-in first-out; inter-stream synchronization quality; intra-stream synchronization quality; live audio transmission; live video transmission; media synchronization control; media synchronization quality; packet scheduling algorithms; priority queueing; routers; weighted fair queueing; Diffserv networks; Indium tin oxide; Intserv networks; Paper technology; Protocols; Quality of service; Scalability; Scheduling algorithm; Streaming media; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Communications, 2001. ICC 2001. IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Helsinki

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7097-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICC.2001.936673

Filename

936673