Distributed video streaming over Internet

Thinh P. Nguyen; Avideh Zakhor

doi:10.1117/12.449979

10 December 2001 Distributed video streaming over Internet

Thinh P. Nguyen, Avideh Zakhor

Proceedings Volume 4673, Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.449979
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2002, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

With the explosive growth of video applications over the Internet, many approaches have been proposed to stream video effectively over packet switched, best-effort networks. A number of these use techniques from source and channel coding, or implement transport protocols, or modify system architectures in order to deal with delay, loss, and time-varying nature of the Internet. In this paper, we propose a framework for streaming video from multiple senders simultaneously to a single receiver. The main motivation in doing so is to exploit path diversity in order to achieve higher throughput, and to increase tolerance to packet loss and delay due to network congestion. In this framework, we propose a receiver-driven transport protocol to coordinate simultaneous transmissions of video from multiple senders. Our protocol employs two algorithms: rate allocation and packet partition. The rate allocation algorithm determines sending rate for each sender to minimize the packet loss, while the packet partition algorithm minimizes the probability of packets arriving late. Using NS and actual Internet experiments, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed distributed transport protocol in terms of the overall packet loss rate, and compare its performance against a na*ve distributed protocol.

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Thinh P. Nguyen and Avideh Zakhor "Distributed video streaming over Internet", Proc. SPIE 4673, Multimedia Computing and Networking 2002, (10 December 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.449979

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