Title
An overlay multicast protocol for live streaming and delay-guaranteed interactive media
Abstract
In many collaborative multimedia applications, there is often a requirement for simultaneously supporting live streaming and shareable interaction. A major challenge in designing such an application by overlay multicast is how to simultaneously provide scalable live streaming and delay-guaranteed interactive media. Live streaming by overlay multicast incurs additional application-layer latency, which conflicts with the delay-sensitive property of interactive media. To handle this dilemma, in this paper, we propose a layered degree-constrained overlay multicast protocol, which organizes the overlay multicast tree as a layered degree-constrained core tree and an extended tree. The core tree maintains available resources in its top layers for subsequent two-way interaction, whereas the extended tree expands the core tree for one-way live streaming. Our simulation and experimental results show that the proposed overlay multicast protocol can simultaneously provide delay-guaranteed interactive media as well as scalable live streaming.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1016/j.jnca.2011.02.013
J. Network and Computer Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
extended tree,core tree,Live streaming,Collaborative learning,layered degree-constrained overlay multicast,shareable interaction,interactive media,overlay multicast,proposed overlay multicast protocol,layered degree-constrained core tree,overlay multicast tree,Layered degree constraint,Interactive media,delay-guaranteed interactive media,Overlay multicast
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
Journal of Network and Computer Applications
11
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.59
29
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Weizhan Zhang110118.64
Qinghua Zheng21261160.88
Haifei Li331232.20
Feng Tian437240.28