Ant colony optimization based packet scheduler for peer-to-peer video streaming

Author

Jung, Young H. ; Kim, Hong-Sik ; Choe, Yoonsik

Author_Institution

Yonsei Univ., Seoul

Volume

13

Issue

6

fYear

2009

fDate

6/1/2009 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

441

Lastpage

443

Abstract

This letter describes a new packet scheduling algorithm for enhancing the quality of distributed peer-to-peer video streaming. The algorithm was designed for when streaming server peers use error recovery such as automatic-repeat-request (ARQ) rather than error protection to avoid overburdening network resources. Ant colony optimization was used for scheduling groups of packets to reflect the channel status and error recovery effect of multiple server peers heuristically. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm can enhance the quality of distributed video streaming services.

Keywords

multimedia communication; multimedia computing; optimisation; peer-to-peer computing; video streaming; ant colony optimization; distributed video streaming; error recovery; packet scheduler; peer-to-peer video streaming; Algorithm design and analysis; Ant colony optimization; Automatic repeat request; Bandwidth; Delay; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Protection; Scheduling algorithm; Streaming media; Distributed streaming, peer-to-peer streaming, ARQ, ant colony optimization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7798

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/LCOMM.2009.081925

Filename

5090430