Dynamic Management of Multiple Resources in Camera Surveillance Systems

Distributed camera surveillance systems typically consist of multiple cameras that need to store some fraction of their video streams in a central storage node. The disk space of this node as well as the network between the cameras and this central node constitute shared resources. In the paper the disk space allocation as well as the network bandwidth reservation are solved using techniques normally associated with process control. These include mid-range control and tracking-based control of global shared resources. The approach is evaluated by simulations.