Towards achieving, self-load balancing in autonomic overlay networks

Dissertant

al-Zbun, Muwaffaq Salim Ata

Thesis advisor

Uwayyid, Husayn H.
al-Uqayli, Ibrahim Z. R.

Comitee Members

Victuruv, Oleg
Bani Muhammad, Sad

University

Middle East University

Faculty

Faculty of Information Technology

Department

Computer Science Department

University Country

Jordan

Degree

Master

Degree Date

2012

English Abstract

Services Specific Overlay Networks are virtual networks built on top of the physical computer network to meet the users’ specific requirements.

They are basically used to deliver multimedia content from a streaming media server to the user.

A central component to this kind of networks is the media ports.

They are network side functions that offer extra tasks such as catching, synchronization, and adaptation for the multimedia content.

Having a specific overlay network for each user implies that huge number of overlay networks will coexist.

This could lead to competition on the media ports.

In addition to that, users may join and leave the network which will render managing this huge number of networks a complex task.

In this thesis, we propose a self-load balancing scheme for service specific overlay networks.

It is intended to balance the loads between media ports, which will fairly distribute tasks between media ports to increase its efficiency.

The proposed solution builds a quadtree overlay, quantifies the media ports’ resources, and encodes the quantified values into an incoming edges overlay.

Self-load balancing is then achieved by sending tasks to the highest in degree media ports.

Main Subjects

Information Technology and Computer Science

Topics

• Management
• Data processing
• Computer networks
• World Wide Web
• Access control
• Cloud computing
• Webservers

No. of Pages

128

Table of Contents

• APA
• MLA
• AMA

Language

English

Data Type

Arab Theses

Record ID

BIM-700213