DHCP-Watch: Pi-Stream: The indirect approach for media streaming

The focus of this work is the design and implementation of a stored media delivery architecture called Pi-Stream. It allows clients to stream media directly from multiple servers and collaboratively from multiple other clients to support a rich media streaming service with high playback rate over the Internet. Pi-Stream is a receiver-driven indirect streaming architecture which employs a software component called a local proxy stream server (LPSS) at the client. Such an architecture guarantees that the system works seamlessly with existing commercially available media streaming clients, requiring no change. Our prototype LPSS is fully implemented and tested on the wide-area Internet and demonstrated sustained playback rates of more than 2.4 Mbps

Software currently available on request by email (suman@cs.wisc.edu) and will soon be made available at sourceforge.net.

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