A Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network for Real Time Video Communication using Multiple Paths

Author

De Mauro, A. ; Schonfeld, Dan ; Casetti, Claudio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Illinois Univ., Chicago, IL

fYear

2006

fDate

9-12 July 2006

Firstpage

921

Lastpage

924

Abstract

This paper presents a peer-to-peer (P2P) service for the transmission of real-time video content, exploiting the contemporary usage of multiple network paths over the current Internet. Before starting the transmission, the sender probes the available paths for their round trip time and other parameters using simple ICMP packets. Then it chooses the set of paths to be used in order to maximize the expected signal to noise ratio (SNR) while meeting the delay requirements of the streaming content. The video is encoded using a multiple description coding (MDC) technique. Simulations show that the proposed algorithm always chooses one of the group of paths that yields the best SNR

Keywords

Internet; peer-to-peer computing; real-time systems; video coding; video communication; ICMP packet; Internet; MDC; P2P; multiple description coding technique; multiple network path; overlay network; peer-peer service; real-time video content transmission; video communication; video encoding; Computer networks; Delay; IP networks; Network address translation; Peer to peer computing; Relays; Signal to noise ratio; Streaming media; Video sharing; Web and internet services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia and Expo, 2006 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Toronto, Ont.

Print_ISBN

1-4244-0366-7

Electronic_ISBN

1-4244-0367-7

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2006.262670

Filename

4036751