A Design of a Video Effect Process Allocation Scheme for Internet Live Broadcasting

In this paper, we propose and implement a method to distribute loads on a video processing system for Internet live broadcasting. Recently, Internet live broadcasting services are widely spread. In the Internet live broadcasting services, users add special effects to videos in real time. However, a delay occurs to process and broadcast videos because of the poor performances of users' devices such as PCs and mobile devices. Therefore, our proposed method assumes that high-performance computers on the Internet and users request the computers to add video effects. Our proposed method selects a specific computer from several computers to process each video based on a P2P mobile agent system. Our experimental results show that our proposed method can reduce the time to process and broadcast videos.