An efficient IPTV distribution technique under NAT environment

Ming Huang Chen*, Yaw-Chung Chen, Wen Kang Jia

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Abstract

IPTV is an emerging Internet application that pumps heavy video traffic to both access networks and ISP backbones. Due to the lack of commercial deployment of IP multicast, huge volume of streaming traffic may overload the servers. Hence, P2P IPTV distribution becomes popular and advances quickly. P2P IPTV uses two approaches: tree-push and mesh-pull. The latter has experienced a number of successful deployments with large online population. In this work, we propose a novel IPTV distribution technique that allows the streaming server to send a single copy instead of multiple copies for distributing video content to a group of recipients under the NAT environment, which is very common in both residential and business local area networks. Experiment shows that our proposed technique not only greatly saves the bandwidth but also improves quality of service of IPTV significantly.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 36th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops, COMPSACW 2012
Pages242-247
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event36th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops, COMPSACW 2012 - Izmir, Turkey
Duration: 16 Jul 201220 Jul 2012

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Computer Software and Applications Conference
ISSN (Print)0730-3157

Conference

Conference36th Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference Workshops, COMPSACW 2012
Country/TerritoryTurkey
CityIzmir
Period16/07/1220/07/12

Keywords

  • IPTV
  • NAT
  • Peer to peer
  • Video streaming

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