Publications
2005
Architectural Thoughts and Requirements Considerations on Video Streaming over the Internet ,
Xiaoming Fu , Dieter Hogrefe , Ingo Juchem , Jun Lei , Technical Report No. IFI?TB?2005?06, Institute for Informatics, University of Goettingen, Germany,
ISSN 1611?1044, November 2005.
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With increasing demands of multimedia information over the Internet, video streaming has been received explosive attentions. With respect to the real-time nature of video streaming, instable bandwidth, latency, noise, packet loss, retransmission and out of order packet delivery are all problems that can affect video streaming over the Internet. However, the traditional Internet traffic is not sensitive to these problems. Based on the general video streaming architecture, we give out some considerations on design and architectural mechanisms, namely, media server, media compression, media QoS control, media distribution services, media security mechanisms and protocol stacks for video streaming. For each of these areas, we present some existing methods and implementations. Then we propose architecture via overlay multicast integrated with proxy caching to achieve efficiency, flexibility and scalability. Finally, we conclude this issue and point out the research direction.
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