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Small playback lag in live streaming is important for time-critical and interactive applications such as live stock, market updates, sports and remote education. In this paper, we present Elite addresses the playback lag problem in peer-assisted live streaming systems. Instead of deploying a large initial offset to all the users, Elite seeks the possibility of initializing users with layered proportional...
Dynamic software updating (DSU) techniques show great promise in allowing vital software services to be upgraded without downtime, avoiding dropped connections and the loss of critical program state. For multithreaded programs, DSU systems must balance correctness and timeliness. To simplify reasoning that an update is correct, we could limit updates to take place only when all threads have blocked...
The net flow is increased gradually with the rapid development of Internet, therefore it is impossible and unaffordable to capture and analysis every packet in network measure. Many scholars have developed variety of packet sampling techniques. However, the parameters researched were not about network availability, and the difference among applications was not considered. In this paper, the conception...
Scale-out datacenters mandate high per-server throughput to get the maximum benefit from the large TCO investment. Emerging applications (e.g., data serving and web search) that run in these datacenters operate on vast datasets that are not accommodated by on-die caches of existing server chips. Large caches reduce the die area available for cores and lower performance through long access latency...
In order to solve the problem of transporting e-VLBI data in fast long distance networks, a new TCP algorithm is proposed in this paper. This new algorithm directly relays on the application layer to adjust its congestion window (cwnd) and transfer rate, so we named it ABCTCP (Application Based rate Controllable TCP). To reach the desired throughput, ABCTCP increases its cwnd aggressively without...
CPU and device virtualization technology allows applications to be hosted on cloud platforms; some of the resulting benefits are lower cost and greater elasticity. In such cloud hosted applications, some components reside on the cloud while others, such as end users and components tied to physical devices, are located outside the cloud. Many applications, e.g., telecom services, have stringent latency...
Data replication is a well-known strategy to achieve the availability, scalability and performance improvement goals in the data management world. However, the cost of maintaining several database replicas always strongly consistent is very high. The CAP theorem shows that a shared-data system can choose at most two out of three properties: consistency, availability, and tolerance to partitions....
As the demand for multimedia traffic via satellite increase, quality of service (QoS) management becomes more crucial, especially for the effective utilization of on-board switching capabilities of multi-beam satellite system. For multimedia services, parameters related to different requirements need to be evaluated in terms of delay, jitter, blocking probability and burstiness. This paper is on the...
Decreasing the soaring energy cost is imperative in large data centers. Meanwhile, limited computational resources need to be fairly allocated among different organizations. Latency is another major concern for resource management. Nevertheless, energy cost, resource allocation fairness, and latency are important but often contradicting metrics on scheduling data center workloads. In this paper, we...
State monitoring is widely used for detecting critical events and abnormalities of distributed systems. As the scale of such systems grows and the degree of workload consolidation increases in Cloud data centers, node failures and performance interferences, especially transient ones, become the norm rather than the exception. Hence, distributed state monitoring tasks are often exposed to impaired...
Online videos are one of the most prevalent forms of communication over the Internet because humans are attracted to visual stimulations. Multimedia services, especially real-time services, require data to arrive on time. Unlike any other transmissions, video streaming needs to be monitored and adapted to bandwidth, when the video stream passes through the best-effort environment. A guaranteed QoS...
In this poster we present an enhanced version of IEEE 802.21 Media Independent Handovers services (MIH) to optimized the network and handover performance. We added features and components in MIH architecture to enable the quick delivery of information to Mobile Nodes (MNs) to optimize the handover process. We added caches and database within Point of Access (PoA) and Media Independent Information...
We study the effect of TCP synchronization on Optical Burst Switched (OBS) networks and its impact on capacity dimensioning. The synchronization of TCP flows appears when a burst with segments from different TCP flows is discarded, making that all TCP flows reduce their transmission rate at the same time, leading to inefficient bandwidth sharing. This paper analyzes the bandwidth capacity that needs...
Powered by cloud computing, Dropbox not only provides reliable file storage but also enables effective file synchronization and user collaboration. This new generation of service, beyond conventional client/server or peer-to-peer file hosting with storage only, has attracted a vast number of Internet users. It is however known that the synchronization delay of Dropbox-like systems is increasing with...
This work addresses the applicability of a switched queuing network as the sole communication network in an aircraft cabin, and proposes an algorithm based on a mixed-integer program to determine hard bounds for the end-to-end delay. These hard bounds guarantee mandatory performance bounds for safety-relevant functions in the aircraft cabin, such as audio announcements or smoke detection. Techniques...
Recently, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) based multi-party video conference systems have been widely deployed. However, those solutions suffer from high cost when multiple users simultaneously distribute video streams to receivers. Most existing systems only support up to a dozen of users at the same time. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to construct and manage a heterogeneous P2P network for scalable...
Location privacy is one critical factor concerned by mobile users of Location Based Service (LBS). Location privacy of mobile users includes two parts: current position information and trajectory information. The problem of position anonymity in Ad Hoc & sensor networks has been widely studied during past years. Nevertheless, most of existing privacy preserving solutions either need a third part...
In Hadoop MapReduce, reduce tasks issue massive remote I/O operations to copy the intermediate results of map tasks. The operations cause massive remote data access delays which degrade the system performance. To Handle this problem, we propose an execution engine of reduce tasks. The engine partitions the execution of reduce tasks into two phases. In the first phase, the engine selects the nodes...
Client-Server has several design alternatives, mainly iterative server and concurrent server. Inefficiency in the use of time and process control can be resulted from choosing a server design improperly. A server has more process control than clients as a server has to respond to multi-query and multi-processing in the same time from different client platforms such as IPv4 or IPv6. This study analyzes...
Three stakeholders come into play in peer-to-peer (P2P) video-on-demand (VoD), namely peers/viewers, content providers and ISPs. Different design choices have been proposed to improve quality of user experience, to bring down content server bandwidth cost and to reduce ISP-unfriendly traffic. However, it is unclear whether the ability of these design choices to meet interests of one stakeholder comes...
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