Brief Announcement: Live Streaming with Utilities, Quality and Cost

摘要

The growth in Internet traffic associated with video streaming and sharing oflive video content is so rapid that it may soon dwarf all other forms of Internet content. By late 2012, Internet video alone is projected to generate almost 10 exabytes of traffic per month, accounting for nearly 50 percent of all Internet traffic. ISPs and content providers are faced with the challenge of devising and deploying technologies to accommodate the surging demand for bandwidth. Data generated in real-time such as by live video broadcasts (e.g. sports games or new episodes of popular TV shows), chat systems, immersive virtual reality applications and games typically can't be cached at all. In today's systems, each client may pull such information on its own point-to-point stream directly from the data center, even if large numbers of clients share interest in at least some aspects of the data.