Reducing Bandwidth Requirement for Delivering Video over Wide Area Networks with Proxy Server

Abstract—Due to the high bandwidth requirement and rate variability of compressed video, delivering video across wide area networks (WANs) is a challenging issue. Proxy servers have been used to reduce network congestion and improve client access time on the Internet by caching passing data. In this paper, we investigate ways to store or stage partial video in proxy servers to reduce the network bandwidth requirement over WAN. A client needs to access a portion of the video from a proxy server over a local area network (LAN) and the rest from a central server across a WAN. Therefore, client buffer requirement and video synchronization are to be considered. We study the tradeoffs between client buffer, storage requirement on the proxy server, and bandwidth requirement over WAN. Given a video delivery rate for the WAN, we propose several frame staging selection algorithms to determine the video frames to be stored in the proxy server. A scheme called chunk algorithm, which partitions a...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ICMCS
• Authors: Wei-hsiu Ma, David Hung-Chang Du
• Keywords: Bandwidth Requirement, ICMCS 2000, Multimedia, Proxy Server, Video