Experimental Studies on Fog Live Streaming

MPhil Thesis Defence


Title: "Experimental Studies on Fog Live Streaming"

By

Mr. Sathish RAGHURAMAN


Abstract

Recent years have witnessed a phenomenal uptick in traditional and 
user-generated forms of video live streaming. To be able to efficiently 
serve large numbers of simultaneous viewers, operators of Content 
Distribution Networks will have to significantly scale up their network 
resources. Such augmentation of CDNs is prohibitively expensive and 
unsustainable. To address this problem, we have designed, developed and 
evaluated FogStream, a scalable, live streaming system that runs on fog 
devices such as routers. Every device running FogStream would serve as a 
newly added edge server and contribute its spare computational and 
bandwidth resources to offload some of the demand on the CDN. FogStream 
can run on different types of commodity routers and is easily integrated 
with conventional CDNs. Key advantages of FogStream include scalability, 
flexibility, fault tolerance and ease of deployment. Experimental studies 
have shown that it can deliver low latency live streams at high continuity 
even in the face of network dynamics.


Date:			Friday, 25 August 2017

Time:			10:00am - 12:00noon

Venue:			Room 2611
 			Lifts 31/32

Committee Members:	Prof. Gary Chan (Supervisor)
 			Prof. Andrew Horner (Chairperson)
 			Prof. Cunsheng Ding


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