Adaptive Quality Of Service Control Research Articles

Adaptive Quality of Service Control for MQTT-SN.

Internet of Things and wireless sensor network applications are becoming more and more popular these days, supported by new communication technologies and protocols tailored to their specific requirements. This paper focuses on improving the performance of a Wireless Sensor Network operated by the MQTT-SN protocol, one of the most popular publish/subscribe protocols for IoT applications. In particular, we propose a dynamic Quality of Service (QoS) controller for the MQTT-SN protocol, capable of evaluating the status of the underlying network in terms of end-to-end delay and packet error rate, reacting consequently by assigning the best QoS value to a node. We design and implement the QoS controller in a simulated environment based on the ns-3 network emulator, and we perform extensive experiments to prove its effectiveness compared to a non-controlled scenario. The reported results show that, by controlling the quality of service, it is possible to effectively manage the number of packets successfully received by each device and their average latency, to improve the quality of the communication of each end node.

A Class-based Adaptive QoS Control Scheme Adopting Optimization Technique over WLAN SDN Architecture

Recently, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), a network architecture approach that enables the network to be intelligently and centrally controlled by using software applications, has been introduced. Another important issue in the network management context is Quality of Service (QoS). This work investigates the QoS provisioning of various traffic classes on an SDN-enabled network. We propose and implement the class-based adaptive QoS control scheme on SDN-enabled network for various traffic classes, namely VoIP, Video Streaming and File Transfer. The effectiveness of our proposed scheme is validated by simulation using Mininet and Ryu controller. The procedure to create the simulation platform and all details relevant to all software used are described step-by-step in detail. The main performance evaluation metric is the Maximum Number of Traffic Flows admittable with QoS while Average Throughput, Latency, Jitter, and Packet Loss Rate are maintained at the comparable level of the existing work in the literature called JMABC [11]. Our simulation results are illustrated with 95% confidence interval. According to the simulation results, it is obvious that our proposed class-based adaptive QoS control scheme adopting the optimization technique significantly outperforms the existing similar QoS provision scheme in terms of the maximum number of the high priority traffic flows (VoIP) admittable with QoS while the other evaluation metrics are maintained at the same level.

An analytic traffic model with adaptive QoS control in an unreliable wireless sensor network

An analytic traffic model is developed for an unreliable wireless sensor network. We model the dynamics of traffic flow from the source node through a set of intermediate nodes to the sink node by using single-server queues. These single-server queues with finite buffers are linked in tandem. To analyze the performance of the sensor network, we decompose the tandem queuing network into individual nodes with modified arrival and service processes and modified queue capacities. In the individual node modeling, we consider the impact of the unreliable transmissions, i.e., node/link failure events, by involving the immediate upstream node and downstream node of the separated node. The steady-state solutions of the individual nodes are determined iteratively. A performance metric source-to-sink delay is derived and selected for studying the quality of service (QoS) control. Adaptive QoS control schemes are developed and their performance is validated by simulation.

Adaptive QoS Control Based on Benefit Optimization for Video Servers Providing Differentiated Services

We propose and analyze quality of service (QoS) control algorithms for video servers designed to provide differentiated video streaming services. The design concepts are based on resource reservation and benefit optimization so that resources are reserved dynamically and adaptively for different QoS levels in response to the changing workload of the system, with the objective of maximizing the benefit throughput obtainable by the system. We analyze the benefit throughput obtainable by the system for a baseline algorithm for which the QoS levels of admitted users are not changed during the service lifetime and a greedy algorithm that may raise QoS levels of admitted users due to resources being free from departure events. We validate the design of these two QoS control algorithms via a detailed simulation study.

Adaptive QoS control for real-time video communication over wireless channels

Robust transmission of real-time video over wireless channels is a challenging problem. This is because the bit error rate (BER) in wireless channels is very high and the bit errors could have devastating effects on the video presentation quality. This paper addresses this problem by introducing adaptive quality-of-service (QoS) control for real-time video communication over wireless channels. The adaptive QoS control consists of optimal mode selection and delay-constrained hybrid automatic repeat request (ARQ). By combining the best features of error-resilient source encoding, forward error correction (FEC) and delay-constrained retransmission, our proposed adaptive QoS control system is capable of achieving bounded delay, high reliability, and efficiency.

클라이언트/서버 기반 스트리밍 시스템에서의 네트워크 적응형 QoS 기법

유.무선 인터넷 및 하드웨어의 발전으로 인터넷 방송, VoD(Video On Demand)등의 응용 서비스가 증가하면서 QoS(Quality of Service) 보장 문제가 해결해야 될 중요한 이슈로 부각되고 있다. 현재 인터넷은 모든 패킷을 우선순위에 상관없이 FIFO 형태로 전달하는 최선형(Best Effort) 서비스 기법에 근간하고 있기 때문에 보다 안정적인 서비스 지원을 위한 새로운 QoS 프로토콜 개발, QoS 지원 라우터 개발 등의 연구가 진행 중이다. 하지만 이러한 새로운 QoS 기법들은 기존 인프라를 충분히 활용하지 못하고 새로운 하드웨어 및 소프트웨어를 사용해야 하기때문에 고비용, 비효율성의 문제를 수반한다. 이러한 점에 착안하여, 본 논문에서는 기존의 인프라를 최대한 이용하는 클라이언트/서버 기반의 네트워크 적응형 QoS 제어기법을 제안한다. 제안된 Qos 제어기법은 스트리밍 시스템에서 실시간으로 서비스되고 있는 네트워크 대역폭 상태를 파악하여 QoS를 지원하기 때문에 유ㆍ무선 네트워크에 상관없이 적용할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 기존의 스트리밍 서비스에서 사용되는 프로토콜들을 이용하기 때문에 저 비용으로 구현할 수 있다. 또한, 스트리밍 서버와 클라이언트에 새로운 모듈 추가만으로 QoS를 지원하기 때문에 라우터나 네트워크 회선의 교체 없이도 QoS를 보장할 수 있는 장점을 지니고 있다. 인터넷의 트래픽이 폭주하는 경우에서 모의실험을 수행한 결과 일반 인터넷 환경에서는 클라이언트의 버퍼 메모리가 비어 스트리밍 재생 시 끊김 현상이 자주 발생하였으나, 제안한 기법을 사용한 인터넷 환경에서는 동영상의 끊김 현상이 없이(seamless) 재생될 수 있는 스트림이 클라이언트 버퍼 메모리에 항상 있음을 확인할 수 있었다. Due to the fast development of wire&wireless internet and computer hardware, more and more internet services are being developed, such as Internet broadcast, VoD (Video On Demand), etc. So QoS (Qualify of Service) is essentially needed to guarantee the quality of these services. Traditional Internet is Best-Effort service in which all packets are transported in FIFO (First In First Out) style. However, FIFO is not suitable to guarantee the quality of some services, so more research in QoS router and QoS protocol are needed. Researched QoS router and protocol are high cost and inefficient because the existing infra is not used. To solve this problem, a new QoS control method, named Network Adaptive QoS, is introduced and applied to client/server-based streaming systems. Based on network bandwidth monitoring mechanism, network adaptive QoS control method can be used in wire&wireless networks to support QoS in real-time streaming system. In order to reduce application cost, the existing streaming service is used in NAQoS. A new module is integrated into the existing server and client. So the router and network line are not changed. By simulation in heavy traffic network conditions, we proved that stream cannot be seamless without network adaptive QoS method.

A multimedia service composition scheme for ubiquitous networks

It is a challenging task to develop a high quality and secure multimedia service for mobile terminals used in the ubiquitous computing environment. One of the issues is the resource limitation of mobile terminals. In this paper, we presented a multimedia service composition scheme for sharing computer and communication resources by using plural terminals to compensate for this resource limitation. The proposed scheme is based on user authentication, service access control, and the multi-agent-based adaptive Quality-of-Service (QoS) control framework that we developed. We also proposed a novel access mode control based on the trustworthiness of users and extension of the multi-agent-based adaptive QoS control framework to plural users. Focusing on the home network as a typical ubiquitous network, we implemented a prototype testbed system and showed experimental results for the multimedia service composition.

Adaptive QoS control of multimedia transmission over band-limited networks

Consumers increasingly demand high quality of service (QoS) for multimedia applications. Application-layer QoS control mechanisms that do not make specific references to coding semantics tend to provide the most robust solutions for delivery of multimedia data over band-limited networks. We propose an adaptive and robust QoS algorithm for band-limited networks that integrates explicit receiver-sender rate control, rate shaping with multiple quantization parameters and adaptive forward error correction (FEC). Experimental results indicate that an average improvement of 0.5 dB PSNR can be achieved compared to other methods.

An agent architecture for strategy-centric adaptive QoS control in flexible videoconference system

In this paper, we propose an agent architecture to improve flexibility of a videoconference system with strategy-centric adaptive QoS (Quality of Service) control mechanism. The proposed architecture realizes more flexibility by changing their QoS control strategies dynamically. To switch the strategies, system considers the properties of problems occurred on QoS and status of problem solving process. This architecture is introduced as a part of knowledge base of agent that deals with cooperation between software module of videoconference systems. We have implemented the mechanism, and our prototype system shows its capability of flexible problem solving against the QoS degradation, along with other possible problems within the given time limitation. Thus we confirmed that the proposed architecture can improve its flexibility of a videoconference system compared to traditional systems.

InfoFilter: Supporting quality of service for fresh information delivery

With the explosive growth of the Internet and World Wide Web comes a dramatic increase in the number of users that compete for the shared resources of distributed system environments. Most implementations of application servers and distributed search software do not distinguish among requests to different web pages. This has the implication that the behavior of application servers is quite unpredictable. Applications that require timely delivery of fresh information consequently suffer the most in such competitive environments. This paper presents a model of quality of service (QoS) and the design of a QoS-enabled information delivery system that implements such a QoS model. The goal of this development is two-fold. On one hand, we want to enable users or applications to specify the desired quality of service requirements for their requests so that application-aware QoS adaptation is supported throughout the Web query and search processing. On the other hand, we want to enable an application server to customize how it should respond to external requests by setting priorities among query requests and allocating server resources using adaptive QoS control mechanisms. We introduce the Infopipe approach as the systems support architecture and underlying technology for building a QoS-enabled distributed system for fresh information delivery.