BALANCE MANAGEMENT OF SCALABILITY AND SERVER LOADABILITY FOR INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) AUDIO CONFERENCE BASED UPON MONITORED RESOURCE CONSUMPTION

摘要

Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to audio stream management in an audio conferencing server and provide a method, system and computer program product for balancing audio server loadability and audio server scalability based upon monitored resource consumption. In an embodiment of the invention, a method for balancing audio server loadability and audio server scalability based upon monitored resource consumption can be provided. The method can include monitoring computing conditions in an audio conferencing server receiving encoded audio packets from coupled Internet Protocol (IP) audio clients and routing the encoded audio packets as audio streams to the IP audio clients, and responsive to detecting deteriorating computing conditions in the audio conferencing server, reducing a number of the audio streams forwarded to the IP audio clients by the audio conferencing server.

主权项

1. A method for balancing audio server loadability and audio server scalability based upon monitored resource consumption, the method comprising:
monitoring computing conditions including one of a central processing unit (CPU) load and a memory utilization in an audio conferencing server receiving encoded audio packets from coupled Internet Protocol (IP) audio clients and routing the encoded audio packets as a number of audio streams to the IP audio clients; and, responsive to detecting deteriorating computing conditions in the audio conferencing server, directing at least one of the IP audio clients to reduce an amount of the encoded audio packets transmitted by the at least one of the IP audio clients to the audio conferencing server; and, reducing the amount of the encoded audio packets transmitted by the at least one of the IP audio clients to the audio conferencing server by directing a subset of the IP audio clients to apply a mute in order to reduce a number of encoded audio packets received for routing in the audio conferencing server and applying the mute.