Scalable resilient media streaming

TitleScalable resilient media streaming
Publication TypeConference Papers
Year of Publication2004
AuthorsBanerjee S, Lee S, Braud R, Bhattacharjee B, Srinivasan A
Conference NameProceedings of the 14th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Date Published2004///
PublisherACM
Conference LocationNew York, NY, USA
ISBN Number1-58113-801-6
Keywordsmedia streaming, Multicast, overlay network, Resilience
Abstract

We present a low-overhead media streaming system, called SRMS (Scalable Resilient Media Streaming) that can be used to scalably deliver streaming data to a large group of receivers. SRMS uses overlay multicast for data distribution. to a large group of users. SRMS leverages a probabilistic loss recovery technique to provide high data delivery guarantees even under large network losses and overlay node failures. The clients in the SRMS system are able to interoperate with existing media streaming servers that use RTP for data transport. One of the interesting features of SRMS is that it can simultaneously support clients with disparate access bandwidths. It enables the necessary bandwidth adaptations using standard Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) mechanisms, e.g. RTP translators. We have implemented and evaluated the SRMS system in detail on an emulated network as well as on a wide-area testbed with up to 128 clients. Our results show that clients using SRMS achieve high (97%) data delivery ratios with low overheads (<5%) even for a very dynamic network (up to five membership changes per minute).

URLhttp://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1005847.1005851
DOI10.1145/1005847.1005851