Scheduling Scheme (scheduling + scheme)

Distribution by Scientific Domains


Selected Abstracts


Efficient and fair scheduling for two-level information broadcasting systems

CONCURRENCY AND COMPUTATION: PRACTICE & EXPERIENCE, Issue 18 2008
Byoung-Hoon Lee
Abstract In a ubiquitous environment, there are many applications where a server disseminates information of common interest to pervasive clients and devices. For an example, an advertisement server sends information from a broadcast server to display devices. We propose an efficient information scheduling scheme for information broadcast systems to reduce average waiting time for information access while maintaining fairness between information items. Our scheme allocates information items adaptively according to relative popularity for each local server. Simulation results show that our scheme can reduce the waiting time up to 30% compared with the round robin scheme while maintaining cost-effective fairness. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Burst scheduling for differentiated services in optical burst switching WDM networks

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Issue 2 2004
David Q. Liu
Abstract Optical burst switching (OBS) is one of the most important switching technologies for future optical wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) networks and the Internet. The model of differentiated services has been proposed to support quality of service (QoS) in the IP-based Internet. It is also very important to have differentiated service support in OBS networks. When the burst scheduling in an OBS network is set up appropriately, network can support differentiated services. In this paper, we proposed a new burst scheduling scheme, called differentiated scheduling with identical priority offset time (DSIPO). In DSIPO, the same priority offset time is used for all the bursts destined to the same edge node regardless of their priorities. Differentiated services in terms of burst loss probability are achieved by processing the control packets of higher priority class bursts, thus reserving resources for their data bursts, more promptly upon their arrival than those of lower priority class bursts. Each intermediate (core) node can adjust the burst loss probabilities of various burst classes by choosing its own differentiated processing delay value for each priority class or its own differentiated processing delay difference value between any pair of adjacent priority classes. We model and analyse DSIPO in terms of the burst loss probability for each priority class with simulation validation. The performance of DISPO is evaluated by simulation. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Efficient packet scheduling for heterogeneous multimedia provisioning over broadband satellite networks: An adaptive multidimensional QoS-based design

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SATELLITE COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKING, Issue 1 2009
Hongfei Du
Abstract With their inherent broadcast capabilities and reliable extensive geographical coverage, the broadband satellite networks are emerging as a promising approach for the delivery of multimedia services in 3G and beyond systems. Given the limited capacity of the satellite component, to meet the diverse quality of service (QoS) demands of multimedia applications, it is highly desired that the available resources can be adaptively utilized in an optimized way. In this paper, we draw our attention on the development and evaluation of an efficient packet scheduling scheme in a representative broadband satellite system, namely satellite digital multimedia broadcasting (SDMB), which is positioned as one of the most attractive solutions in the convergence of a closer integration with the terrestrial mobile networks for a cost-effective delivery of point-to-multipoint services. By taking into account essential aspects of a successful QoS provisioning while preserving the system power/resource constraints, the proposed adaptive multidimensional QoS-based (AMQ) packet scheduling scheme in this paper aims to effectively satisfy diverse QoS requirements and adaptively optimize the resource utilization for the satellite multimedia broadcasting. The proposed scheme is formulated via an adaptive service prioritization algorithm and an adaptive resource allocation algorithm. By taking into account essential performance criteria, the former is capable of prioritizing contending flows based on the QoS preferences and performance dynamics, while the latter allocates the resources, in an adaptive manner, according to the current QoS satisfaction degree of each session. Simulation results show that the AMQ scheme achieves significantly better performance than those of existing schemes on multiple performance metrics, e.g. delay, throughput, channel utilization and fairness. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Traffic locality characteristics in a parallel forwarding system

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Issue 9 2003
W. Shi
Abstract Due to the widening gap between the performance of microprocessors and that of memory, using caches in a system to take advantage of locality in its workload has become a standard approach to improve overall system performance. At the same time, many performance problems finally reduce to cache performance issues. Locality in system workload is the fact that makes caching possible. In this paper, we first use the reuse distance model to characterize temporal locality in Internet traffic. We develop a model that closely matches the empirical data. We then extend the work to investigate temporal locality in the workload of multi-processor forwarding systems by comparing locality under different packet scheduling schemes. Our simulations show that for systems with hash-based schedulers, caching can be an effective way to improve forwarding performance. Based on flow-level traffic characteristics, we further discuss the relationship between load-balancing and hash-scheduling, which yields insights into system design. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Scheduling and power control for MAC layer design in multihop IR-UWB networks

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NETWORK MANAGEMENT, Issue 1 2010
Reena Pilakkat
Recently, a number of researchers have proposed media access control (MAC) designs for ultra-wideband (UWB) networks. Among them, designs based on scheduling and power control seem to be of great promise, particularly for quality-of-service (QoS) traffic. We investigate the efficiencies of many different choices for scheduling and power allocation for QoS traffic in a multihop impulse radio (IR)-UWB network, with the objective of achieving both high spectral efficiency and low transmission power. Specifically, we compare different scheduling schemes employing a protocol interference-based contention graph as well as a physical interference-based contention graph. We propose a relative distance to determine adjacency in the protocol interference-based contention graph. Using our improved protocol interference model with graph-based scheduling, we obtained better performance than the physical interference-based approach employing link-by-link scheduling. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]


Robust design of communication systems: The case of expedited forwarding of voice traffic in differentiated services networks

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS, Issue 10 2007
Hyoup-Sang Yoon
Abstract Design of experiments (DOE) is gaining acceptance in the community of telecommunication researchers, especially during the past several years. In this paper, a state-of-the-art review on the use of DOE in the field of communication networks is presented, and the need for introducing a systematic robust design methodology to network simulations or testbed experiments is identified in ensuring robust behaviours of a network against uncontrollable sources of variation. Then, the Taguchi robust design methodology is applied for optimizing the expedited forwarding (EF) of voice traffic in a differentiated services network, and its step-by-step procedures are described in detail. The experimental data are collected using the ns-2 simulator, and the SN ratio, a robustness measure, is analysed to determine an optimal design condition for each performance characteristic. The analysis results show that ,type of queue scheduling schemes' is a major control factor for ensuring robust behaviours of one-way delay and jitter while ,EF queue size' is for throughput and loss rate. Finally, a compromised optimal design condition is identified using a desirability function approach adapted to multi-characteristic robust design problems. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]