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Project Overview
This project is developing next-generation transport level and application
level data delivery protocols for the Internet and other on-demand data
delivery systems that will contain large, popular, widely-shared streaming
media files.
The approach that we have pioneered includes:
- a scalable near-optimal transport protocol that shares bandwidth
fairly and includes a small number of input parameters that are easy
to configure for all network paths,
- simple, scalable on-demand real-time streaming protocols that
recover lost packets and
use multicast to implement optimized client stream sharing,
- streaming content distribution networks that minimize delivery cost,
taking client cost sharing into account,
- delivery protocols that can be applied to media objects that have high, moderate,
or time varying popularity,
- design of the techniques for Internet (or Web) delivery as well as
for satellite/cable delivery,
and
- the use of high-fidelity analytic models as well as a prototype implementation
to guide system design.
The results of the research have been implemented in the SWORD prototype
streaming system,
to demonstrate implementation feasibility and
validate the projected performance improvements.
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