Media telecom network: A Telco approach to peer-to-peer delivery of streaming content
✍ Scribed by Thomas Strauss; Yuzhong Shen; Duan Chen; Juan Wu; Hong Tang
- Publisher
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 335 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1089-7089
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✦ Synopsis
streaming services like live television (TV) and video on demand (VoD).
The service control layer is the core of MTN and is charged with the centralized management of client and system resources to implement the accurate management of content sources, quick search, and scheduling. The MTN resource management and scheduling system will periodically communicate with the terminal and server to monitor and manage content slice information on peers (including terminals and servers), as well as the terminal's system resources, for example, upstream/downstream bandwidth. Together with the distributed resource information and the characteristics of the servers, it will calculate the initial route, which will be pushed to the terminal after filtering. As client terminals take part in the exchange of content, they become network elements of the MTN. The content resource is not stored as a whole item, but sliced into pieces and stored in the distributed nodes. Since terminals enter or exit the MTN on a random basis, the number of participant nodes and related resource information change extremely frequently. The resource management and scheduling system has to manage a great deal of resource information and to maintain (query, add, or remove) data from the database frequently. Since a