Video Streaming on the Internet Using Split and Merge Multicast

Author

Kulkarni, Santosh

Author_Institution

Victorian Res. Lab., Nat. ICT Australia

fYear

2006

fDate

6-8 Sept. 2006

Firstpage

221

Lastpage

222

Abstract

Application-level multicast overcomes the problems linked with IP-multicast and provides an effective mechanism to support media streaming. One key problem associated with this approach is the restriction on the content that can be distributed because the upstream capacity of the peers is utilized to forward content to other peers. As the upstream capacity of most peers is restricted, Webcasting high-bandwidth content is a continuing problem with traditional application-level multicasting techniques. Split and merge multicast provides a solution to this problem. This paper presents the results of a large-scale field trial of the technology

Keywords

IP networks; Internet; bandwidth allocation; media streaming; multicast communication; peer-to-peer computing; video streaming; IP-multicast; Internet; Webcasting; application-level multicasting; media streaming; merge multicast; split multicast; upstream capacity; video streaming; Australia; Availability; Bandwidth; Internet; Multicast algorithms; Multicast protocols; Peer to peer computing; Scalability; Streaming media; System testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2006. P2P 2006. Sixth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cambridge

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2679-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/P2P.2006.47

Filename

1698613