Livesmart
Rui-Xiao Zhang, Ming Ma, Tianchi Huang, Haitian Pang, Xin Yao, Chenglei Wu, Jiangchuan Liu, Lifeng Sun · 2019
Viewer scheduling among different CDN providers in crowdsourced live streaming (CLS) service is especially challenging due to the large-scale dynamic viewers as well as the time-variant performance of the content delivery network. A practical scheduling method should tackle the following challenges: 1) accurate modeling of viewer patterns and CDN performance; 2) intelligent workload offloading to save costs while guaranteeing the quality of service (QoS); 3) and ease of integration with practical CDN infrastructure in CLS platforms.