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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Flow Control of Real Time Multimedia Applications Using Model Predictive Control with a Feed Forward Term

Duong, Thien Chi 2010 December 1900 (has links)
Multimedia applications over the Internet are getting more and more popular. While non-real-time streaming services, such as YouTube and Megavideo, are attracting millions of visiting per day, real-time conferencing applications, of which some instances are Skype and Yahoo Voice Chat, provide an interesting experience of communication. Together, they make the fancy Internet world become more and more amusing. Undoubtedly, multimedia flows will eventually dominate the computer network in the future. As the population of multimedia flows increases gradually on the Internet, quality of their service (QoS) is more of a concern. At the moment, the Internet does not have any guarantee on the quality of multimedia services. To completely surpass this limitation, modifications to the network structure is a must. However, it will take years and billions of dollars in investment to achieve this goal. Meanwhile, it is essential to find alternative ways to improve the quality of multimedia services over the Internet. In the past few years, many endeavors have been carried on to solve the problem. One interesting approach focuses on the development of end-to-end congestion control strategies for UDP multimedia flows. Traditionally, packet losses and delays have been commonly used to develop many known control schemes. Each of them only characterizes some different aspects of network congestion; hence, they are not ideal as feedback signals alone. In this research, the flow accumulation is the signal used in feedback for flow control. It has the advantage of reflecting both packet losses and delays; therefore, it is a better choice. Using network simulations, the accumulations of real-time audio applications are collected to construct adaptive flow controllers. The reason for choosing these applications is that they introduce more control challenges than non-real-time services. One promising flow control strategy was proposed by Bhattacharya and it was based on Model Predictive Control (MPC). The controller was constructed from an ARX predictor. It was demonstrated that this control scheme delivers a good QoS while reducing bandwidth use in the controlled flows by 31 percent to 44 percent. However, the controller sometime shows erratic response and bandwidth usage jumps frequently between lowest and highest values. This is not desirable. For an ideal controller, the controlled bandwidth should vary near its mean. To eliminate the deficiency in the strategy proposed by Bhattacharya, it is proposed to introduce a feed forward term into the MPC formulation, in addition to the feedback terms. Simulations show that the modified MPC strategy maintains the benefits of the Bhattacharya strategy. Furthermore, it increases the probability of bandwidth savings from 58 percent for the case of Bhattacharya model to about 99 percent for this work.

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