Caching multicast protocol for on-demand video delivery

Kien A. Hua; Duc A. Tran; Roy Villafane

doi:10.1117/12.373514

27 December 1999 Caching multicast protocol for on-demand video delivery

Kien A. Hua, Duc A. Tran, Roy Villafane

Proceedings Volume 3969, Multimedia Computing and Networking 2000; (1999) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.373514
Event: Electronic Imaging, 2000, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

Despite advances in networking technology, the limitation of the server bandwidth prevents multimedia applications from taking full advantage of next-generation networks. This constraint sets a hard limit on the number of users the server is able to support simultaneously. To address this bottleneck, we propose a Caching Multicast Protocol (CMP) to leverage the in-network bandwidth. Our solution caches video streams in the routers to facilitate regional services in the immediate future. In other words, the network storage is managed as a huge `video server' to allow the application to scale far beyond the physical limitation of its video server. The tremendous increase in the service bandwidth also enables the system to provide true on-demand services. To assess the effectiveness of this technique, we develop a detailed simulator to compare its performance with that of our earlier scheme called Chaining. The simulation results indicates that CMP is substantially better with many desirable properties as follows: (1) it is optimized to reduce traffic congestion; (2) it uses much less caching space; (3) client workstations are not involved in the caching protocol; (4) it can work on the network layer to leverage modern routers.

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Kien A. Hua, Duc A. Tran, and Roy Villafane "Caching multicast protocol for on-demand video delivery", Proc. SPIE 3969, Multimedia Computing and Networking 2000, (27 December 1999); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.373514

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