System and generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability

• US 8,239,560 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2007
• Issued: 08/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
• Original Assignee: National Tsing Hua University
• Inventors: Lee, Jenq Kuen, Chen, Chung Kai, Chang, Yu Hao, Yang, Chih Chieh, Chung, Kai Hsin
• Primary Examiner(s): Salad, Abdullahi
• Assistant Examiner(s): Tran, Jimmy H
• Application Number:
  US11/864,147
• Publication Number:
  US 20080209063A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,775 Days
• Field of Search: 709/231, 709/203, 709/217, 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/231
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/765 intermediate

Abstract

A system of remote objects with network streaming ability includes a streaming client, a plurality of streaming servers, a streaming buffer area, a plurality of first continuous buffer areas, a streaming controller, a plurality of first network connections, and a plurality of second network connections. The plurality of streaming servers is used to respond a remote procedure call from the streaming client. The streaming buffer area stores a complete data unit for the streaming client to access. A generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability is further provided. The method includes executing a link procedure, executing a streaming preparation, executing a streaming transfer procedure, and closing the link procedure.

Claims

1. A generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability, comprising the steps of:

executing a link procedure, comprising the steps of;

establishing a plurality of corresponding first network connections between a streaming client and a plurality of streaming servers according to a remote procedure call from the streaming client; and

establishing a streaming controller by using the streaming client, wherein the streaming controller controls the transfer of a plurality of data units between the streaming client and the plurality of streaming servers with a streaming object data type;

executing a streaming preparation, comprising the steps of;

collecting streaming source information from the streaming servers; and

establishing a streaming schedule according to the streaming source information, wherein the streaming schedule is associated with a plurality of available streaming servers;

analyzing the remote procedure call by using the streaming controller, the streaming controller performing an aggregation sort according to the streaming source information, and the streaming controller forming the streaming schedule according to available streaming servers, wherein the aggregation sort includes calculating a weight for each of the streaming servers, the weight of each streaming server is determined by;

weight(s_i)=α

×

(r_i/Req(d_j))+β

×

Completeness(s_i) +γ

×

1 (1/k_i)

where Completeness(s_i) represents data integrity in the streaming server s_i, and the Completeness (s_i) is determined by;

Completeness(s_i)=(size(Blocks(s_i))/size(D));

where S={s_i |i=1,2, . . . ,n} represents a collection of the streaming servers, D={d_j |j=1,2, . . . ,m} represents a collection of data blocks, Blocks(s_i) represents data blocks in each server s_i, k_i represents an amount of existing streaming data, r_i represents a bandwidth provided by the server s_i, Req(d_j)) represents a bandwidth required by a streaming transfer, and the α

0 represents a proportion of the bandwidth provided for the streaming server, the β

represents a proportion of data integrity for data existing in the streaming server, and γ

is inversely proportional to an amount of a streaming media on the streaming servers;

executing a streaming transfer procedure to provide a complete data unit for the streaming client to access, wherein the complete data unit is associated with the data unit with the streaming object data type; and

closing the link procedure.

2. The generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability of claim 1, wherein the step of executing the link procedure further comprises:

obtaining a plurality of corresponding addresses of the streaming servers and that of the streaming client; and

providing the data unit with the streaming object data type from the streaming servers.

3. The generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability of claim 1, wherein the step of executing the link procedure further comprises:

registering each of the data units with the streaming object data type at a register side and treating each of the data units as a remote component; and

waiting for the remote procedure call.

4. The generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability of claim 1, wherein the first network connections are used to transfer the plurality of data units with the streaming object data type only.

5. The generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability of claim 1, wherein the aggregation sort comprises the step of:

determining priorities of the available streaming servers according to their weight.

6. The generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability of claim 1, wherein the step of executing the streaming transfer comprises:

establishing a first continuous buffer area for each of the available streaming servers according to the streaming schedule so as to receive the corresponding data unit with the streaming object data type;

establishing a second continuous buffer area to form a pair of buffer areas with the first continuous buffer area; and

transferring the data units with the streaming object data type from the available streaming servers to a streaming buffer area so as to form the complete data unit.

7. The generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability of claim 6, wherein the data unit with the streaming object data type is transferred through the pair of buffer areas.

8. The generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability of claim 6, wherein the second continuous buffer area is at the streaming client.

9. The generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability of claim 6, wherein each of the first network connections is established between the corresponding pair of buffer areas.

10. The generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability of claim 1, further comprising a step of establishing a plurality of second network connections, wherein the second network connections are used to transfer control messages only.

11. The generation method of remote objects with network streaming ability of claim 1, wherein the generation method is applied in one of Java RMI and .NET Remoting.