Streaming media data have strict delay and loss requirements, which cannot be adequately supported by the current Internet. Proxy caching technology is introduced to alleviate the effect of the bottleneck bandwidth on...Streaming media data have strict delay and loss requirements, which cannot be adequately supported by the current Internet. Proxy caching technology is introduced to alleviate the effect of the bottleneck bandwidth on the transporting quality. A new architecture of multimedia proxy caching is given to solve the problem of the traditional Web caching technology for the multimedia streaming. The mixed media management module and the (resource) management module are added to this architecture, the prefetching and replacement method is studied considering the characteristics of streaming media data, the concept of weighed popularity is given to enhance the (exactness) of the replacement algorithm.展开更多
It is expected that by 2003 continuous media will account for more than 50% of the data available on origin servers, this will provoke a significant change in Internet workload. Due to the high bandwidth requirements ...It is expected that by 2003 continuous media will account for more than 50% of the data available on origin servers, this will provoke a significant change in Internet workload. Due to the high bandwidth requirements and the long-lived nature of digital video, streaming server loads and network bandwidths are proven to be major limiting factors. Aiming at the characteristics of broadband network in residential areas, this paper proposes a popularity-based server-proxy caching strategy for streaming media. According to a streaming media popularity on streaming server and proxy, this strategy caches the content of the streaming media partially or completely. The paper also proposes two formulas that calculate the popularity coefficient of a streaming media on server and proxy, and caching replacement policy. As expected, this strategy decreases the server load, reduces the traffic from streaming server to proxy, and improves client start-up latency.展开更多
The hit rate, a major metric for evaluating proxy caches, is mostly limited by the replacement strategy of proxy caches. However, in traditional proxy caches, the hit rate does not usually successfully predict how w...The hit rate, a major metric for evaluating proxy caches, is mostly limited by the replacement strategy of proxy caches. However, in traditional proxy caches, the hit rate does not usually successfully predict how well a proxy cache will perform because the proxy cache counts any hit in its caching space which has many pages without useful information, so its replacement strategy fails to determine which pages to keep and which to release. The proxy cache efficiency can be measured more accurately using the valid hit rate introduced in this paper. An efficient replacement strategy based on the Site Graph model for WWW (World Wide Web) documents is also discussed in this paper. The model analyzes user access behavior as a basis for the replacement strategy. Simulation results demonstrate that the replacement strategy improves proxy cache efficiency.展开更多
文摘Streaming media data have strict delay and loss requirements, which cannot be adequately supported by the current Internet. Proxy caching technology is introduced to alleviate the effect of the bottleneck bandwidth on the transporting quality. A new architecture of multimedia proxy caching is given to solve the problem of the traditional Web caching technology for the multimedia streaming. The mixed media management module and the (resource) management module are added to this architecture, the prefetching and replacement method is studied considering the characteristics of streaming media data, the concept of weighed popularity is given to enhance the (exactness) of the replacement algorithm.
文摘It is expected that by 2003 continuous media will account for more than 50% of the data available on origin servers, this will provoke a significant change in Internet workload. Due to the high bandwidth requirements and the long-lived nature of digital video, streaming server loads and network bandwidths are proven to be major limiting factors. Aiming at the characteristics of broadband network in residential areas, this paper proposes a popularity-based server-proxy caching strategy for streaming media. According to a streaming media popularity on streaming server and proxy, this strategy caches the content of the streaming media partially or completely. The paper also proposes two formulas that calculate the popularity coefficient of a streaming media on server and proxy, and caching replacement policy. As expected, this strategy decreases the server load, reduces the traffic from streaming server to proxy, and improves client start-up latency.
基金the State High- Tech Developments Planof China (No.86 3- 30 6 - ZT0 1- 0 3- 1) IBM China Research Lab Huawei Enterprise Funding onScience and Technology
文摘The hit rate, a major metric for evaluating proxy caches, is mostly limited by the replacement strategy of proxy caches. However, in traditional proxy caches, the hit rate does not usually successfully predict how well a proxy cache will perform because the proxy cache counts any hit in its caching space which has many pages without useful information, so its replacement strategy fails to determine which pages to keep and which to release. The proxy cache efficiency can be measured more accurately using the valid hit rate introduced in this paper. An efficient replacement strategy based on the Site Graph model for WWW (World Wide Web) documents is also discussed in this paper. The model analyzes user access behavior as a basis for the replacement strategy. Simulation results demonstrate that the replacement strategy improves proxy cache efficiency.
