Generating representative Web workloads for network and server performance evaluation
SIGMETRICS '98/PERFORMANCE '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM SIGMETRICS joint international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Experimental Extensions to RSVP - Remote Client and One-Pass Signalling
IWQoS '01 Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Quality of Service
Towards RSVP Lite: Light-Weight RSVP for Generic Signaling
AINA '03 Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications
Quality of Service Architectures for Wireless Networks: IntServ and DiffServ Models
ISPAN '99 Proceedings of the 1999 International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Networks
Explaining World Wide Web Traffic Self-Similarity
Explaining World Wide Web Traffic Self-Similarity
End-to-End QoS Guarantees Over Diffserv Networks
ISCC '01 Proceedings of the Sixth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications
Client Architecture for MPEG-4 Streaming
IEEE MultiMedia
Optimizing Download Time of Embedded Multimedia Objects for Web Browsing
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
Accounting and pricing: a forecast of the scenario of the next generation Internet
Computer Communications
The complementary roles of RSVP and differentiated services in the full-service QoS network
IEEE Communications Magazine
A practical architecture for implementing end-to-end QoS in an IP network
IEEE Communications Magazine
Accelerating peer-to-peer networks for video streaming using multipoint-to-point communication
IEEE Communications Magazine
NSIS: a new extensible IP signaling protocol suite
IEEE Communications Magazine
oStream: asynchronous streaming multicast in application-layer overlay networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Intelligent content aware services in 3G wireless networks
IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
Efficient bandwidth resource allocation for low-delay multiuser video streaming
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
A policy framework for integrated and differentiated services in the Internet
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Web server support for tiered services
IEEE Network: The Magazine of Global Internetworking
Performance evaluation of RSVP extensions for a guaranteed delivery scenario
Computer Communications
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Quality-of-service techniques allow network providers to differentiate the services they offer to their customers. This differentiation makes it possible to consider charging new quality transport services based on network resource usage. In a content streaming framework, consumers pay for content and network access. Similarly, content providers pay to reserve transport service resources to deliver high-quality content. Therefore, content providers need new cost-efficient methods that optimize network resource reservations. Our paper proposes a new method that ensures data availability on the client side while optimizing network resource reservation when servers deliver stored content with semielastic unicast flows. The method uses network resource reservation to guarantee the delivery rate when stored data is below a minimum threshold in the client memory. When occupancy reaches a maximum threshold, the transmission changes to the classic best-effort service, which is not charged based on usage but at a flat rate. The proper design of these thresholds optimizes transmission cost. We validate our analytical method using the ns-2 simulator. We also present a new approach for improving this method when the best-effort delivery rate from the server to the client presents higher variability. Finally, we analyse the case of several homogeneous clients that simultaneously require resource reservation from the server. To avoid resource reservation rejection in the server, bandwidth must be suitably allocated among the clients. To evaluate this more complex case, we also perform some simulations and implement the associated prototype to validate the simulations. The qualitative simulation results reveal optimum working areas in which usage-cost reduction efficiency of the method is significant and extra signalling is minimum.