An overlay based QoS-aware voice-over-IP conferencing system

While ubiquitous IP telephony has become a feasible Internet service, it is expected to meet the quality standards for traditional telephone services. This paper presents a distributed voice-over-IP (VoIP) conferencing system called Venus that is implemented as a composable application-level service overlay network. Compared to the traditional centralized approach, Venus achieves better scalability and resource utilization by efficiently aggregating resources across distributed voice mixers. Moreover, Venus provides multi-constrained quality-of-service (QoS) provisioning by establishing each conferencing session based on multiple QoS constraints (e.g., delay, loss rate) and resource requirements (e.g., bandwidth, audio channels). Venus provides failure resilient VoIP conferencing service by leveraging the fast failure recovery capability of the application-level service overlay network. Large-scale simulation results illustrate the efficiency of the Venus system.