An experimental VoD server for IPTV

Author

Can, Orhan ; Kucuk, Gurhan ; Baydere, Sebnem ; Sarpkaya, Anil O. ; Gursoy, Ozan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng., Yeditepe Univ., Istanbul, Turkey

fYear

2015

fDate

16-19 May 2015

Firstpage

723

Lastpage

726

Abstract

Today, availability of high-speed networks and improved storage and processing power on servers enable Video on Demand (VoD) services much more accessible than before. The VoD services offer very high flexibility to clients and let them watch any video content whenever they like. In this study, we present the design of a scalable VoD server that is capable of supporting in the order of thousands video requests on a local area network. Our proposed design does not require a set-top box at the client side. After its design and implementation of the system, a series of tests are carried out with both 360p and 720p video streams, and CPU, memory and I/O statistics are analyzed. The results show that the major bottleneck in the VoD server is the network bandwidth. When it is provided to be as large as 1 GB/s, we show that our proposed VoD server is capable of serving thousand clients.

Keywords

IPTV; input-output programs; local area networks; statistical analysis; video on demand; video streaming; CPU statistics analysis; I-O statistics analysis; IPTV; high-speed networks; local area network; memory statistics analysis; network bandwidth; scalable VoD server; scalable video-on-demand server; video content; video requests; video streams; Bandwidth; Central Processing Unit; Local area networks; Media; Servers; Streaming media; TV; centralized services; local area networks; video on demand services;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Signal Processing and Communications Applications Conference (SIU), 2015 23th

Conference_Location

Malatya

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SIU.2015.7129928

Filename

7129928