Title: A relay path selection method for video streaming on shared terminals

Authors: Yasuhiro Kawano, Koji Hashimoto, Yoshitaka Shibata

Addresses: Graduate School of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, 152-52, Sugo, Takisawa, Iwate 020-0193, Japan. ' Graduate School of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, 152-52, Sugo, Takisawa, Iwate 020-0193, Japan. ' Graduate School of Software and Information Science, Iwate Prefectural University, 152-52, Sugo, Takisawa, Iwate 020-0193, Japan

Abstract: As broadband network services and video streaming systems become more common, high-definition (HD) quality stream format has become increasingly popular in live video distribution. Today|s video streaming systems are used for a variety of purposes, but those systems require much bandwidth and CPU power for video streams. In this paper, we focus on the design of a relay path selection method on community-based resource sharing networks, which is able to select and use suitable stream paths cooperatively in sharing resources. On live video distribution, a candidate relay path list is created when users request to receive live video streams, and the best path is selected. If a new relay node is required, the suitable relay node is placed on a shared terminal in consideration of available resource status. Our experiments by a prototype system show that our method is successful in realisation of the suitable relay path selection and live video streaming on shared terminals.

Keywords: live video distribution; cooperative video streaming; community-based networks; resource sharing networks; HD quality; SD quality; relay path selection; shared terminals; high definition video; standard definition video.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIS.2011.040927

International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security, 2011 Vol.2 No.1, pp.18 - 35

Published online: 28 Feb 2015 *

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