Title :
Hybrid video downloading/streaming over peer-to-peer networks
Author :
Yufeng Shan ; Kalyanaraman, Shivkumar
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr., Comput. & Syst. Eng., Rensselaer Polytech. Inst., Troy, NY, USA
Abstract :
Peer-to-peer based multimedia delivery is becoming increasingly more important in today´s networks. Using a peer- to-peer network to assist video streaming is a topic of considerable interest. In this paper, we propose a novel hybrid video downloading/streaming scheme (HDS) that efficiently integrates traditional client/server based video streaming and peer-to-peer based media distribution. Furthermore, we propose a receiver-driven algorithm to coordinate the downloading and streaming modes; and control the state transitions between these modes. We have performed real-world experiments and simulations to validate our concept. These results show that our proposed scheme greatly increases the availability of video content on the receiver side and simultaneously reduces the server load significantly.
Keywords :
client-server systems; multimedia communication; telecommunication networks; video signal processing; visual communication; client/server systems; multimedia delivery; peer-to-peer networks; video content; video downloading; video streaming; Availability; Bit rate; Delay; Modeling; Multicast protocols; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Streaming media; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2003. ICME '03. Proceedings. 2003 International Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7965-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2003.1221704