Switchboard: Efficient Resource Management for Conferencing Services
Rahul Bothra, Rohan Gandhi, Ranjita Bhagwan, Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Rui Liang, Steve Carlson, Vinayaka Kamath, Sreangsu Acharyya, Ken Sueda, Somesh Chaturmohta, Harsha Sharma · 2023
Resource management is important for conferencing services (such as Microsoft Teams, Zoom) to ensure good user experience while keeping the costs low. Key to this is the efficient provisioning and assignment of media processing (MP) servers, which do the heavy lifting of mixing and redistributing the media streams from and to the call participants.