Research Article

Threshold-based admission control for a multimedia Grid: analysis and performance evaluation

  1. Yang Zhang1,*,
  2. Jiannong Cao2,
  3. Xiaolin Chen3,
  4. Sanglu Lu1,
  5. Li Xie1

Article first published online: 17 JAN 2006

DOI: 10.1002/cpe.1026

Issue

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience

Special Issue: Grid and Cooperative Computing (GCC2004)

Volume 18, Issue 14, pages 1747–1758, 15 December 2006

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How to Cite

Zhang, Y., Cao, J., Chen, X., Lu, S. and Xie, L. (2006), Threshold-based admission control for a multimedia Grid: analysis and performance evaluation. Concurrency Computat.: Pract. Exper., 18: 1747–1758. doi: 10.1002/cpe.1026

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China

  2. 2

    Department of Computing, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong

  3. 3

    Department of Computer Science, Chuxiong Normal University, Chuxiong 675000, People's Republic of China

*Department of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 11 OCT 2006
  2. Article first published online: 17 JAN 2006
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 1 MAY 2005
  4. Manuscript Revised: 31 MAR 2005
  5. Manuscript Received: 28 FEB 2005

Funded by

  • National High Technology Development 863 Program of China. Grant Number: 2001AA113050
  • Hong Kong Polytechnic University ICRG. Grant Number: G-YD63
  • National Grant Fundamental Research 973 Program of China. Grant Number: 2002CB312002
  • National Natural Science Foundation of China. Grant Number: 60363001

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Keywords:

  • multimedia Grid;
  • admission control;
  • threshold;
  • reward/penalty

Abstract

In a Grid-based services system facing a large number of requests with different services and profits significance, there is always a trade-off between the system profits and the Quality of Service (QoS). In such systems, admission control plays an important role: the system has to employ a proper strategy to make admission control decisions and reserve resources for the coming requests thus to achieve greater profits without violating the QoS of the requests already admitted. In this paper, we introduce three essential admission control strategies with threshold on resource reservation and a newly proposed strategy with layered threshold. Through comprehensive theoretical analyses and extensive simulations, we demonstrate that the strategy with layered threshold is more efficient and flexible than the existing strategies for Grid-based multimedia services systems. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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