Scaling content communicated over a network

摘要

An architecture is provided that can scale content resolution in order to mitigate errors in a provisioned service of a communication network, such as a wireless service or a femtocell service that integrates with DSL or other broadband carriers. The architecture can identify fault conditions relating to e.g., bandwidth oversubscription or symbolization integrity. Based upon such identification, the architecture can alter encoding format codecs of certain types of content in order to reduce their resolution/quality, thereby mitigating bandwidth oversubscription fault conditions or freeing up space (without necessarily increasing bandwidth) to insert additional FEC code.

主权项

1. A system, comprising:
a memory that stores instructions; and a processor, coupled to the memory, that facilitates execution of the instructions to perform operations, comprising:
monitoring network traffic through a gateway device associated with a provisioned service of a communications network;facilitating issuance of an alarm based on a detection of a defined fault condition associated with a degradation of the provisioned service;identifying a type of content associated with the provisioned service communicated through the gateway device;determining a proportion of bandwidth associated with the gateway device that is allocated to communications of content of the type;determining a scaling factor based on the type of the content communicated through the gateway device; andreducing a resolution associated with content communicated through the gateway device by the scaling factor determined based on the alarm, wherein the resolution relates to a bit rate associated with an encoding format for the content communicated through the gateway device.