Combined path and server selection in dynamic multimedia environments
Zhenghua Fu, Nalini Venkatasubramanian · 1999
The evolving global information infrastructure consists of a widearea networking backbone that provides connectivity among service providers and clients requesting multimedia services via different applications. As this infrastructure scales, service providers replicate data and resources on the network to serve more concurrent clients. Adaptive and intelligent scheduling techniques are required to increase the utilization of their resources and handle an increasing number of requests. Scheduling for multimedia applications must guarantee desired Quality-of-Service (QoS) from both the network path and the server. Furthermore, with the increasing amount of mobile clients and highly dynamic network topologies, optimizing resource utilization becomes complicated. In a highly dynamic and ad-hoc environment where clients are mobile, load sensitive routing and scheduling techniques must be able to tolerate some information