Title
Efficient scheduling discipline for hierarchical Diff-EDF
Abstract
Packet networks are currently enabling the integration of traffic with a wide range of characteristics that extend from video traffic with stringent quality of service (QoS) requirements to the best-effort traffic requiring no guarantees. QoS guarantees can be provided in conventional packet networks by the use of proper packet-scheduling algorithms. As a computer revolution, many scheduling algorithms have been proposed to provide different schemes of QoS guarantees, with Earliest Deadline First (EDF) as the most popular one. With EDF scheduling, all flows receive the same miss rate regardless of their traffic characteristics and deadlines. This makes the standard EDF algorithm unsuitable for situations in which the different flows have different miss rate requirements since in order to meet all miss rate requirements it is necessary to limit admissions so as to satisfy the flow with the most stringent miss rate requirements. In this paper, we propose a new priority assignment scheduling algorithm, Hierarchal Diff-EDF (Differentiate Earliest Deadline First), which can meet the real-time needs of these applications while continuing to provide best-effort service to non-real time traffic. The Hierarchal Diff-EDF features a feedback control mechanism that detects overload conditions and modifies packet priority assignments accordingly.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1002/nem.661
Int. Journal of Network Management
Keywords
Field
DocType
hierarchical diff-edf,efficient scheduling discipline,different flow,edf scheduling,qos guarantee,rate requirement,time traffic,best-effort traffic,hierarchal diff-edf,traffic characteristic,video traffic,conventional packet network
Scheduling (computing),Computer science,Network packet,Computer network,Quality of service,Earliest deadline first scheduling,Dynamic priority scheduling,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
18
3
1055-7148
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
11
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Moutaz Saleh102.70
Zulaiha Ali Othman29116.18