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Multipath TCP (MPTCP) has gained great attention by the researchers and network application developers due to its features providing better bandwidth utilization and higher reliability recently. Utilizing MPTCP in the datacenters provides performance gain to the applications. If the underlying network has Software Defined Networking (SDN) architecture, the routing of the MPTCP subflows can be specialized...
Content Delivery Network (CDN) is an effective solution to offer reliable and efficient content provisioning across the Internet. In order to ensure the service experience, it is critical to adopt efficient routing and server selection techniques in CDN. However, traditional CDN is unable to possess global knowledge of whole network and therefore lacks the ability to dynamically control routing and...
The scale and expense of modern data centers motivates running them as efficiently as possible. This paper explores how virtualized data center performance can be improved when network traffic and topology data informs VM placement. Our practical heuristics, tested on network-heavy, scale-out workloads in an 80 server cluster, improve overall performance by up to 70% compared to random placement in...
HTTP adaptive streaming (HAS) services allow the quality of streaming video to be automatically adapted by the client application in face of network and device dynamics. Due to their advantages compared to traditional techniques, HAS-based protocols are widely used for over-the-top (OTT) video streaming. However, they are yet to be adopted in managed environments, such as ISP networks. A major obstacle...
In spite of the increasing deployment of IPTV services, various functionalities still need to be improved. One of the main challenges is a reduction in startup delays, especially in channel switchings, a problem which is quite relevant in P2P IPTV systems. This paper evaluates the iPeer TV, a P2P IPTV architecture with fast channel switching. Our contribution is threefold. Firstly, we propose how...
Data centers consume significant amounts of energy. As severs become more energy efficient with various energy saving techniques, the data center network (DCN) has been accounting for 20% or more of the energy consumed by the entire data center. While DCNs are typically provisioned with full bisection bandwidth, DCN traffic demonstrates fluctuating patterns. The objective of this work is to improve...
In this paper we propose and then implement a novel H.264/AVC Scalable Video Coding multi-user video-on-demand system for hand-held devices over GPRS/EDGE network. We design a reliable and efficient adaptive streaming mechanism for QoS support. The major contributions come from three folds: firstly, accumulation-based congestion control model is used for bandwidth estimation to ensure fairness among...
Based on stochastic switching model, an event-driven dynamic load balancing strategy is presented for the streaming media clustered server systems. This strategy increases the server cluster availability by balancing the workloads among the servers within a cluster. Additionally, it improves the access hit ratio of cached files in delivery servers to alleviate the limitation of I/O bandwidth of storage...
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