Title
Real-time scheduling of multimedia data retrieval to minimize buffer requirement
Abstract
Continuous display is an important issue in the domain of multimedia applications. Especially, to ensure this continuity in the presence of multiusers, a feasible scheduling algorithm is prerequisite for real time data retrieval from the I/O subsystem. I/O scheduling techniques can be classified into two types: meta-I/O scheduling which arranges the sequence of data retrieval before issuing physical I/O requests, and disk scheduling which determines the order of processing I/O requests that have been issued. In disk scheduling, there are several elegant algorithms that had been discussed such as Scan, C-Scan, shortest seek time first and Scan-EDF. All of them focused on improving I/O throughput by serving requests closer to disk head first [7][8]. We focus this paper, however, on solving the real time meta-I/O scheduling.For real-time scheduling, several algorithms had been addressed such as earliest-deadline-first (EDF) [4], least-laxity-first (LLF) [9], earliest-ready-time first (LRF) [6], and so on, which had shown to be elegant for task scheduling to promote system throughput. When applying to meta-I/O scheduling, however, these algorithms would result in large amount of buffer requirement for accommodating the retrieved data. In this paper, we proposed two real-time algorithms and a technique, called object migration, to minimize buffer requirement for meta-I/O scheduling. A buffer measurement approach was also proposed in this paper to estimate the performance of a real-time scheduling algorithm, which is based upon the well-known graph coloring technique. Simulation experiments were conducted to analyze the performance of algorithms. The results indicate that our approaches perform much better than existing real-time algorithms in terms of reducing buffer requirement.
Year
DOI
Venue
1996
10.1145/230908.230921
Operating Systems Review
Keywords
Field
DocType
o scheduling,real-time algorithm,buffer requirement,o scheduling technique,disk scheduling,real time,scheduling,real-time scheduling,task scheduling,buffer management,feasible scheduling algorithm,data retrieval,multimedia data retrieval,real-time scheduling algorithm,o request,simulation experiment,real time data,scheduling algorithm,earliest deadline first,graph coloring,least laxity first
Fixed-priority pre-emptive scheduling,I/O scheduling,Fair-share scheduling,Computer science,Two-level scheduling,Real-time computing,Rate-monotonic scheduling,Earliest deadline first scheduling,Dynamic priority scheduling,Round-robin scheduling,Distributed computing
Journal
Volume
Issue
Citations 
30
3
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
5
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wen-Jiin Tsai117419.57
Suh-Yin Lee21596319.67