Adaptive Load Sharing and Scheduling Schemes for Distributed Continuous Media Delivery

The purpose of load sharing is to improve both the performance and readiness of non-interrupted continuous media delivery by redistributing workload among collaborating servers. We proposed and evaluate a few adaptive load sharing policies where simple scheduling schemes are derived. The objectives are: l ) to understand the potential load imbalance problem in distributed multimedia system, 2 ) to minimize the initial latency where system workload is constantly changed, and 3) to maintain the stability of the overall system. We develop a Two-phase List Scheduling with partial reordering of incoming requests to meet the challenge. The end result suggests that, migrating workload to highly loaded continuous media server generates best implementation alternative.