A Multi-Channel Multimedia Content Distribution Strategy using Multiple Description Coding

Recently multi-channel media broadcast systems on P2P network have emerged in applications such as long-distance education and multi media broadcast television.As these systems suffer from an obvious serious conflict between huge amounts of data and limited available bandwidth over the Internet itʹs unpractical to provide the best network service for the all multi media service channels. So, there are two key issues for the multi-channel systems:(1)how to reduce transmission delay that multi media stream of each channel is distributed to all consumers and (2)how to guarantee the QoS metrics of some concernful channels ,such as bitrates and latencies. Legacy relevant approaches mainly focus on the assignment of priorities to different peers and provide differentiated service quality to them thereafter. However,the issues of low-delay transmission and service differentiation for the entire channels have not addressed yet. In this study, we propose a multi-channel multi media dissemination strategy named DiffStream. In DiffStream, Multiple Description Coding (MDC) technology is utilized and each channel disseminates partial streaming data instead of all.And service differentiation is also achieved by treating different channels with varying priorities and reserving bandwidth in advance to different channels in application layer. In addition, an extensive mechanism of vacant bandwidth preemption for improving bandwidth utilization is also raised. Experiments are carried out on NS2 and the results have demonstrated DiffStreamʹs effectiveness in achieving our design objectives.