Nowadays,video streaming counts for the major part of network traffic over the Internet.However,on account of the host-to-host mechanism of the traditional IP network,video distribution over IP-based Internet encounte...Nowadays,video streaming counts for the major part of network traffic over the Internet.However,on account of the host-to-host mechanism of the traditional IP network,video distribution over IP-based Internet encounters bottlenecks.Fortunately,a new proposed future Internet architecture,named data networking(NDN)can improve the performance of video distribution by its features such as in-network storage,multi-path forwarding,etc.In this paper,we design an adaptive bitrate algorithm based on Lyapunov optimization theory over NDN to optimize the long-term quality-of-experience(QoE)of video distribution while ensuring the stability of the whole system.When the network condition is abundant and stable,the problem can be simplified by approximating to a fixed-slot queuing model,but the theoretical performance will degrade when the network status is poor and fluctuate fiercely.Therefore,we divide the problem into two models of fixed time slot and non-fixed time slot and design two Lyapunov optimization algorithms to adapt different network scenarios.The proposed algorithms do not require prior knowledge of the network bandwidth and are capable of running online with the client’s available information.Simulation and realistic experiment results demonstrate that our algorithms perform better than others in NDN.展开更多
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant 2020YFA0711400the National Science Foundation of China under Grant 61673360the CETC Joint Advanced Research Foundation under Grant 6141B08080101.
文摘Nowadays,video streaming counts for the major part of network traffic over the Internet.However,on account of the host-to-host mechanism of the traditional IP network,video distribution over IP-based Internet encounters bottlenecks.Fortunately,a new proposed future Internet architecture,named data networking(NDN)can improve the performance of video distribution by its features such as in-network storage,multi-path forwarding,etc.In this paper,we design an adaptive bitrate algorithm based on Lyapunov optimization theory over NDN to optimize the long-term quality-of-experience(QoE)of video distribution while ensuring the stability of the whole system.When the network condition is abundant and stable,the problem can be simplified by approximating to a fixed-slot queuing model,but the theoretical performance will degrade when the network status is poor and fluctuate fiercely.Therefore,we divide the problem into two models of fixed time slot and non-fixed time slot and design two Lyapunov optimization algorithms to adapt different network scenarios.The proposed algorithms do not require prior knowledge of the network bandwidth and are capable of running online with the client’s available information.Simulation and realistic experiment results demonstrate that our algorithms perform better than others in NDN.
