Monitoring Metrics for Load Balancing over Video Content Distribution Servers

Abstract

Cloud computing and video streaming services have been in constant expansion in recent years. Along with it, the demand for computing resources has also increased significantly. In this context, monitoring the use of these resources is crucial to maintain a satisfactory level of Quality of Service and, consequently, Quality of Experience, especially in video transmission services. This work discusses a new method of monitoring resources and quality of service metrics on content servers involving CPU utilization and server throughput, which is obtained in a distributed way. For that, a distributed collector system that is based on a modified version of the ring election algorithm is developed to retrieve the Quality of Service metrics in each server. Evaluation experiment results show that there are no performance gains on the system such as the content loading faster for the user, there are however, improvements in terms of the whole system scalability. The greater the number of servers for monitoring, the better the approach is compared to the traditional method of monitoring resources through request and response.