Overview

The main contribution of this project is the design and implementation of Archies, a generic and open end-to-end architecture for adaptive streaming of live MPEG-4 video over last hop wireless networks. The distinguishing features of our architecture include support for end-to-end source rate adaptation, feedback control from the client and end-to-end packet loss differentiation. We also implemented a prototype of Archies and evaluated its performance over a real network testbed. Archies serve as a generic and open end-to-end video streaming architecture and experimental real network testbed that provides an excellent platform to the research community to develop, evaluate and compare various algorithms for adaptive video streaming over wireless networks. The components of the architecture are designed to be lightweight and modular that could be easily extended and evolved in the future with better algorithms for video compression and source rate adaptation.

Publications

R.Kothari, A. Ganz, "Archies: An End-to-End Architecture for Adaptive Live MPEG-4 Video Streaming over Wireless Networks", to appear in IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob'2005), Montreal, Canada, August 2005.

People

Rakesh Kothari, Aura Ganz

Software

Coming Soon.

This research work is supported by grants from:
 

National Science Foundation	Army Research Office	Microsoft Corporation