Session-Aware Popularity Resource Allocation for Assured Differentiated Services

Differentiated Service networks (DS) are fair in the way that different types of traffic can be associated to different network services, and so to different quality levels. However, fairness among flows sharing the same service may not be provided. Our goal is to study fairness between multirate multimedia sessions for an assured DS service, in a multicast network environment. To achieve this goal, we present a fairness mechanism called Session-Aware Popularity Resource Allocation (SAPRA), which allocates resources to multirate sessions based upon their number of receivers. Simulation results in a multirate and multi-receiver scenario show that SAPRA maximizes the utilization of bandwidth and maximizes the number of receivers with high-quality reception.

[1]  Fred Baker,et al.  Assured Forwarding PHB Group , 1999, RFC.

[2]  Ratul Mahajan,et al.  Controlling high-bandwidth flows at the congested router , 2001, Proceedings Ninth International Conference on Network Protocols. ICNP 2001.

[3]  Arnaud Legout,et al.  Pathological behaviors for RLM and RLC , 2000 .

[4]  Fouad A. Tobagi,et al.  Perceived quality and bandwidth characterization of layered MPEG-2 video encoding , 1999, Optics East.

[5]  Jon Crowcroft,et al.  TCP-like congestion control for layered multicast data transfer , 1998, Proceedings. IEEE INFOCOM '98, the Conference on Computer Communications. Seventeenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. Gateway to the 21st Century (Cat. No.98.

[6]  Dimitri P. Bertsekas,et al.  Data Networks , 1986 .

[7]  Henning Schulzrinne,et al.  Multi-Layer Utilization Maximal Fairness for Multi-Rate Multimedia Sessions , 2001 .

[8]  Leandros Tassiulas,et al.  Fair allocation of discrete bandwidth layers in multicast networks , 2000, Proceedings IEEE INFOCOM 2000. Conference on Computer Communications. Nineteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (Cat. No.00CH37064).

[9]  Mathias Johanson.  Scalable Video Conferencing Using Subband Transform Coding and Layered Multicast Transmission , .

[10]  Steven McCanne,et al.  Receiver-driven layered multicast , 1996, SIGCOMM '96.

[11]  Donald F. Towsley,et al.  The impact of multicast layering on network fairness , 1999, SIGCOMM '99.

[12]  David L. Black,et al.  An Architecture for Differentiated Service , 1998 .

[13]  Kai-Yeung Siu,et al.  On Max-Min Fair Congestion Control for Multicast ABR Service in ATM , 1997, IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun..

[14]  Arnaud Legout,et al.  Bandwidth allocation policies for unicast and multicast flows , 1999, IEEE INFOCOM '99. Conference on Computer Communications. Proceedings. Eighteenth Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies. The Future is Now (Cat. No.99CH36320).

[15]  Avideh Zakhor,et al.  Multirate 3-D subband coding of video , 1994, IEEE Trans. Image Process..

[16]  Mark Handley,et al.  Session Announcement Protocol , 2000, RFC.

[17]  Xue Li,et al.  Multisession rate control for layered video multicast , 1998, Electronic Imaging.

[18]  David D. Clark,et al.  Explicit allocation of best-effort packet delivery service , 1998, TNET.