A Testbed Experiment of the Server Selection Indicators for Pre-Recorded Video Publishing

The paper focuses on the video publishing on the rented server. When the publisher publishes pre- recorded videos, he has to select a server from many server services in the Internet. In order to allow publishers themselves to select the optimal rented server (with the fastest response) in the Internet to publish the pre-recorded video, some indicators for selection are required. This study first gives the candidates of the indicators; ping RTT, HTTping, and P-DLT, then evaluates their appropriateness as the indicator on a testbed using an Ethernet emulator. The evaluation result shows that these indicators are useful to select the optimal server and to estimate those times related to video playing.