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An MPEG-4 Compliant Interactive Multimedia Streaming Platform Using Overlay Networks
- Authors
- Hyun Cheol Kim, Charalampos Z. Patrikakis, Nikos Minogiannis, Pantelis N. Karamolegkos, Alex Lambiris, Kyu Heon Kim
- Issue Date
- 2006-08
- Citation
- ETRI Journal, v.28, no.4, pp.411-424
- ISSN
- 1225-6463
- Publisher
- 한국전자통신연구원 (ETRI)
- Language
- English
- Type
- Journal Article
- Abstract
- This paper presents a multimedia streaming platform for efficiently transmitting MPEG-4 content over IP networks. The platform includes an MPEG-4 compliant streaming server and client, supporting object-based representation of multimedia scenes, interactivity, and advanced encoding profiles defined by the ISO standard. For scalability purposes, we employ an application-layer multicast scheme for media transmission using overlay networks. The overlay network, governed by the central entity of the network distribution manager, is dynamically deployed according to a set of pre-defined criteria. The overlay network supports both broadcast delivery and video-ondemand content. The multimedia streaming platform is standards-compliant and utilizes widespread multimedia protocols such as MPEG-4, real-time transport protocol, real-time transport control protocol, and real-time streaming protocol The design of the overlay network was architected with the goal of transparency to both the streaming server and the client. As a result, many commercial implementations that use industry-standard protocols can be plugged into the architecture relatively painlessly and can enjoy the benefits of the platform.
- KSP Keywords
- 4 content, Application layer multicast, IP networks, ISO standard, Interactive multimedia streaming, Mpeg-4, Network distribution, Object-based, Overlay networks, Real-Time Streaming, Real-time transport control protocol(RTCP)