Design of multimedia Web server using a neuro-fuzzy framework

In this paper, we propose a neuro-fuzzy scheduler (NFS) for a multimedia Web server to ensures synchronized delivery of multimedia documents. The problem of scheduling multimedia information to ensure media synchronization in a Web environment is identified as a multicriteria scheduling problem which is NP-hard. The proposed NFS makes an intelligent compromise among multicriteria by properly combining some scheduling heuristics. Performance of the NFS is compared with several known heuristics and a branch and bound algorithm. The results show that the proposed neuro-fuzzy scheduler can dynamically adjust to the varying work-load quite well