Coordination Algorithm Design of the Distributed Storage Proxy Servers for Streaming Media

Abstract

For streaming media proxy server systems which are geographically far apart, distributed streaming media proxy server clusters can be a good solution to reduce upward bandwidth consumption, shorten access distance, and improve service capacity; the key is to solve the coordination problem among the proxy servers. The decision problem of the user request dispatch actually belongs to NP-complete. This article proposes an online coordination algorithm for the distributed storage streaming media proxy servers, and discusses the relative deviation of the approximate solution from the optimal solution, to serve as a reference to the specific applications of clustered streaming media proxy servers.