First Video Streaming Experiments on a Time Driven Priority Network
Mario Baldi, Guido Marchetto · PORTO Publications Open Repository TOrino (Politecnico di Torino) · 2006
� Abstract � — As broadband access becomes more widely available and affordable, future Internet traffic will be dominated by streaming media flows, such as video-telephony, video-conferencing, high definition TV, 3D video, virtual reality, and many more. Consequently, networks will have to offer quality of service with scalable solutions — i.e., currently relied- upon overprovisioning is not likely to be a viable solution to accommodate streaming media traffic. This paper describes a testbed and experiments demonstrating the deployment time- driven priority scheduling — an implementation of pipeline forwarding — to support video streaming. The purpose of the presented experiments is to intuitively show the benefits the proposed solution provides to UDP-based streaming applications, while preserving efficient support for elastic TCP-based traffic.