ON THE DESIGN OF A SCALABLE MULTIMEDIA STREAMING SYSTEM BASED ON RECEIVER-DRIVEN FLOW AND CONGESTION AWARENESS

Iñigo Urteaga, Iraide Unanue, Javier Del Ser, Pedro Sanchez, Aitor Rodriguez

2010

Abstract

In this position paper we present the design of an end-to-end scalable content streaming system that optimizes the quality of experience of the end-user by allowing each client to retrieve a customized multimedia stream, based on both network and client states. By taking advantage of multimedia scalability, our proposed receiverdriven architecture performs a multilayered streaming, where each client is responsible for controlling the number of multimedia layers it demands from the server. Furthermore, the streaming system proposed herein implements both congestion and flow control mechanisms, which are also delegated to the receiver. In order to properly address both network and client states and restrictions, a set of specific metrics (Buffer State, Interarrival Jitter and Loss Event Rate) are utilized, which have been specifically designed to match the miscellaneous characteristics of heterogeneous networks and end devices. Built upon such metrics, we present a decision algorithm that jointly performs congestion and flow control, while maximizing inter-session fairness and end-user quality of experience. The proposed architecture combines different standard protocols while guaranteeing independence between components of the streaming system.

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Urteaga I., Unanue I., Del Ser J., Sanchez P. and Rodriguez A. (2010). ON THE DESIGN OF A SCALABLE MULTIMEDIA STREAMING SYSTEM BASED ON RECEIVER-DRIVEN FLOW AND CONGESTION AWARENESS . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2010) ISBN 978-989-8425-19-5, pages 39-45. DOI: 10.5220/0002987400390045


in Bibtex Style

@conference{sigmap10,
author={Iñigo Urteaga and Iraide Unanue and Javier Del Ser and Pedro Sanchez and Aitor Rodriguez},
title={ON THE DESIGN OF A SCALABLE MULTIMEDIA STREAMING SYSTEM BASED ON RECEIVER-DRIVEN FLOW AND CONGESTION AWARENESS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2010)},
year={2010},
pages={39-45},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002987400390045},
isbn={978-989-8425-19-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - Volume 1: SIGMAP, (ICETE 2010)
TI - ON THE DESIGN OF A SCALABLE MULTIMEDIA STREAMING SYSTEM BASED ON RECEIVER-DRIVEN FLOW AND CONGESTION AWARENESS
SN - 978-989-8425-19-5
AU - Urteaga I.
AU - Unanue I.
AU - Del Ser J.
AU - Sanchez P.
AU - Rodriguez A.
PY - 2010
SP - 39
EP - 45
DO - 10.5220/0002987400390045