Publication
Title
An SLA-driven framework for dynamic multimedia content delivery federations
Author
Abstract
Recently, the Internet has become a popular platform for the delivery of multimedia content. However, its best effort delivery approach is ill-suited to guarantee the stringent Quality of Service (QoS) requirements of many existing multimedia services, which results in a significant reduction of the Quality of Experience. This paper presents a solution to these problems, in the form of a framework for dynamically setting up federations between the stakeholders involved in the content delivery chain. More specifically, the framework provides an automated mechanism to set up end-to-end delivery paths from the content provider to the access Internet Service Providers (ISPs), which act as its direct customers and represent a group of end-users. Driven by Service Level Agreements (SLAs), QoS contracts are automatically negotiated between the content provider, the access ISPs, and the intermediary network domains along the delivery paths. These contracts capture the delivered QoS and resource reservation costs, which are subsequently used in the price negotiations between content provider and access ISPs. Additionally, it supports the inclusion of cloud providers within the federations, supporting on-the-fly allocation of computational and storage resources. This allows the automatic deployment and configuration of proxy caches along the delivery paths, which potentially reduce delivery costs and increase delivered quality.
Language
English
Source (journal)
IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium : [proceedings] : NOMS. - Piscataway, NJ, 2000, currens
Source (book)
13th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, April 16-20, 2012, Maui, Hawaii
Publication
New york : Ieee , 2012
ISBN
978-1-4673-0268-5
Volume/pages
(2012) , p. 1241-1247
ISI
000309517000182
UAntwerpen
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Publication type
Subject
External links
Web of Science
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Last edited 26.01.2023
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