Considerations on Selection Criteria for Sources of Multimedia Traffic
Falko Dressler · 2003
The goal of this paper is to summarize the currently used selection criteria for sources of multimedia traffic and to propose a new quality of service based criterion. During the last few years, a number of approaches have been established to distribute multiple servers over the network having all of them containing the same replicated content. This work was primarily pushed by distributed web services and by new peer-to-peer protocols. Unfortunately, all these approaches only apply to typical data transfers. In the case of multimedia streaming, the most important factor is the currently available transmission quality from the server towards to the client. Therefore, this quality criterion was chosen for a more intense study. All together we were able to propose a quality of service based selection process and to create a measurement environment to test the approach. The results of this research work are summarized in this paper.