Media streaming delivery in wireless ad hoc networks is challenging due to the stringent resource restrictions,po-tential high loss rate and the decentralized architecture. To support long and high-quality streams,one viable approach is that a media stream is partitioned into segments,and then the segments are replicated in a network and served in a peer-to-peer(P2P) fashion. However,the searching strategy for segments is one key problem with the approach. This paper proposes a hybrid ants-like search algorithm(HASA) for P2P media streaming distribution in ad hoc networks. It takes the advantages of random walks and ants-like algorithms for searching in unstructured P2P networks,such as low transmitting latency,less jitter times,and low unnecessary traffic. We quantify the performance of our scheme in terms of response time,jitter times,and network messages for media streaming distribution. Simulation results showed that it can effectively improve the search efficiency for P2P media streaming distribution in ad hoc networks.
Due to large size and different popularity for different part of the video, most proxy caches for streaming medias cache only a part of the video. Thus, an accurate understanding on the internal popularity distribution of media objects in streaming applications is very important for the development of efficient cache mechanisms. This letter shows that the internal popularity of popular streaming media obeys a k-transformed Zipf-like distribution through analyzing two 6-month long traces recorded at different streaming video servers of an entertainment video-on-demand provider. This empirical model can be used to design an efficient cach- ing algorithm.
多径传输有两种模式:一种是主/备模式,只有在主路径失效之后,其它路径才可以传输数据;另一种是复制模式,数据同时从所有的路径传输。在传感器网络中,这两种模式都没有很好地结合能量节约和负载均衡。本文提出了一种传感器网络中能量敏感负载均衡的多径传输策略,数据基于决定性能量比例(DER)从源到目标沿着多径传输。这种技术不必定期计算 DER,容易实现而且开销较小。本文还提出带有过载避免机制的 DER 技术(DEROA),用来减少某些关键节点的过多通信量。仿真结果证明,DER 可以达到有效传输的目的。
