QoS-based synchronization of multimedia document streams

Author

Khan, M. Farrukh ; Ghafoor, Halima ; Paul, Raymond

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., KYUPM, Dehran, Saudi Arabia

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

320

Lastpage

327

Abstract

In this paper, we discuss various characteristics of multimedia data and the effect of the network on the required quality of service for multimedia data in terms of synchronization. Scheduling transmission of multimedia information for synchronized delivery, over broadband networks with limited resources, and is identified as an NP-hard problem. We introduce two parameters to measure the performance of end-to-end synchronization protocols for networked distributed multimedia applications. We propose various heuristic scheduling algorithms for multimedia synchronization and compare their performance.

Keywords

heuristic programming; multimedia communication; quality of service; scheduling; synchronisation; transport protocols; heuristic scheduling; multimedia data; multimedia document streams; multimedia synchronization; network; performance; quality of service; scheduling; synchronization protocols; transmission; Application software; Communication networks; Computer network management; Computer networks; Data engineering; Multimedia systems; NP-hard problem; Protocols; Scheduling algorithm; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Software Engineering, 2002. Proceedings. Fourth International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1857-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSE.2002.1181629

Filename

1181629