Peer-to-Peer Streaming with Hierarchical Network Coding

Abstract— In recent years, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Peerto-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as two effective paradigms for delivering multimedia contents over the Internet. An important feature in CDN and P2P networks is the data redundancy across multiple servers/peers which enables efficient media delivery. In this paper, we propose a network coding framework for efficient media streaming in either content delivery networks or P2P networks in which, multiple servers/peers are employed to simultaneously stream a video to a single receiver. Unlike previous multi-sender schemes, we show that network coding technique can (a) reduce the redundancy storage, (b) eliminate the need for tight synchronization between the senders, and (c) be integrated easily with TCP. Furthermore, we propose the Hierarchical Network Coding (HNC) technique to be used with scalable video bit stream to combat bandwidth fluctuation on the Internet. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed s...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ICMCS
• Authors: Kien Nguyen, Thinh Nguyen, Sen-Ching S. Cheung
• Keywords: Content Delivery Networks, ICMCS 2007, Network Coding, P2P Networks