Integrated admission control in hierarchical video-on-demand systems

TitleIntegrated admission control in hierarchical video-on-demand systems
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication1999
AuthorsMundur P, Simon R, Sood A
Conference NameIEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999
Date Published1999/07//
PublisherIEEE
ISBN Number0-7695-0253-9
KeywordsAdmission control, Bandwidth, blocking, Computer science, Design methodology, end-to-end system, hierarchical video-on-demand systems, integrated admission control, Intelligent networks, Load management, Motion pictures, Network servers, network subsystem, performance, Performance analysis, performance evaluation, quality of service, request handling, resource allocation, Resource management, simulation, storage subsystem, video on demand, video servers
Abstract

We develop a unified model of a hierarchical video-on-demand (VoD) system by integrating the storage and the network subsystems. Rather than restricting the analysis to an isolated subsystem the performance of the VoD system is analyzed as an end-to-end system. On a system-wide basis, request handling and admission control policies are designed to minimize global performance metrics. Through our simulation, we compare different request handling policies and show that a hierarchical VoD architecture with request handling that allows retrials at more than one resource will minimize overall blocking

DOI10.1109/MMCS.1999.779196