Impact of traffic burstiness on optimal batching policy for energy-efficient Video-on-Demand services | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Impact of traffic burstiness on optimal batching policy for energy-efficient Video-on-Demand services


Abstract:

In this paper, we consider the impact of traffic burstiness on optimal batching policy for energy-efficient Video-on-Demand (NVoD) services. By introducing batching techn...Show More

Abstract:

In this paper, we consider the impact of traffic burstiness on optimal batching policy for energy-efficient Video-on-Demand (NVoD) services. By introducing batching technology, multiple users can be served by one multicast transmission. The more users in one multicast transmission, the less transmissions are needed, which induces less channel occupancy and energy consumption. However, to expect more users coming leads to longer queueing time. Hence, there is a trade-off between the number of transmissions and the average queueing time of users. We prove that N-Policy is optimal among all feasible policies when the arrivals of users follow a Poisson process. When the inter-arrival time of users follows Gamma distribution, i.e., the arrival process is smooth, it is shown that N-Policy is still optimal. But, when the inter-arrival time of users follows hyper-exponential distribution, i.e., the arrival process is bursty, the N-policy is no more optimal and the energy cost can be further reduced by a Generalized Impatient (GI) policy, especially when the coefficient of variance is large.
Date of Conference: 21-23 May 2014
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 14 August 2014
Electronic ISBN:978-1-4799-2890-3
Conference Location: Athens, Greece

Contact IEEE to Subscribe

References

References is not available for this document.