Title
Load balancing for multimedia streaming in heterogeneous peer-to-peer systems
Abstract
Multimedia streaming of mostly user generated content is an ongoing trend, not only since the upcoming of Last.fm and YouTube. A distributed decentralized multimedia streaming architecture can spread the (traffic) costs to the user nodes, but requires to provide for load balancing and consider the heterogeneity of the participating nodes. We propose a DHT-based information gathering and analyzing architecture which controls the streaming request assignment in the system and thoroughly evaluate it in comparison to a distributed stateless strategy. We evaluated the impact of the key parameters in the allocation function which considers the capabilities of the nodes and their contribution to the system. Identifying the quality-bandwidth tradeoffs of the information gathering system, we show that with our proposed system a 53% better load balancing can be reached and the efficiency of the system is significantly improved.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1145/1496046.1496069
NOSSDAV
Keywords
Field
DocType
heterogeneous peer-to-peer system,decentralized multimedia,ongoing trend,dht-based information gathering,load balancing,allocation function,information gathering system,user node,key parameter,better load balancing,proposed system,user generated content,load balance
User-generated content,Architecture,Peer-to-peer,Computer science,Load balancing (computing),Computer network,Real-time computing,Multimedia,Stateless protocol
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
13
0.80
10
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kalman Graffi122828.17
Sebastian Kaune221412.93
Konstantin Pussep319513.86
Aleksandra Kovacevic430419.93
Ralf Steinmetz53685478.76