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Interest-suppression-based NDN live video broadcasting over wireless LAN

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Named data networking (NDN) is a new Internet architecture that replaces today’s focus on where – addresses and hosts with what – the content that users and applications care about. One of NDN’s prominent advantages is scalable and efficient content distribution due to its native support of caching and multicast in the network. However, at the last hop to wireless users, often the WiFi link, current NDN implementation still treats the communication as multiple unicast sessions, which will cause duplicate packets and waste of bandwidth when multiple users request for the same popular content. WiFi’s built-in broadcast mechanism can alleviate this problem, but it suffers from packet loss since there is no MAC-layer acknowledgement as in unicast. In this paper, we develop a new NDN-based cross-layer approach called NLB for efficient and scalable live video streaming over wireless LAN. The core ideas are: using WiFi’s broadcast channel to deliver content from the access point to the users, a leader-based mechanism to suppress duplicate requests from users, and receiver-driven rate control and loss recovery. The design is implemented and evaluated in a physical testbed comprised of one software AP and 20 Raspberry Pi-based WiFi clients. While NDN with multiple unicast sessions or plain broadcast can support no more than ten concurrent viewers of a 1Mbps streaming video, NDN plus NLB supports all 20 viewers, and Received December 29, 2015; accepted April 28, 2016 E-mail: zhxp@tsinghua.edu.cn can likely support much more when present.

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This work was partly supported by the State Key Program of National Science of China (61233007), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) (Grant Nos. 61472214 & 61472210), the National High Technology Development Program of China (863 program) (2013AA013302), the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973 program) (2013CB329105), the Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology key projects, the Global Talent Recruitment (Youth) Program, and the Cross-disciplinary Collaborative Teams Program for Science & Technology & Innovation of Chinese Academy of Sciences- Network and system technologies for security monitoring and information interaction in smart grid.

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    Menghan Li, Dan Pei, Xiaoping Zhang & Ke Xu

  2. Department of Computer Science, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721-0001, USA

    Beichuan Zhang

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Menghan Li is currently a PhD candidate in Department of Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University, China. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Tsinghua University in 2007. His current research interests are information-centric network, video streaming, and network security.

Dan Pei is an associate professor in Computer Science Department at Tsinghua University, China. Before that he was a researcher at AT&T Research. He received his PhD degree from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA in 2005, and his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Tsinghua University in 1997 and 2000. He is an IEEE Senior Member and an ACM Senior Member. He was selected as an “Expert of China Goverment’s Global Talent Recruitment (Youth Program)” in 2012. His current research interests are network measurement, network management, and network security.

Xiaoping Zhang is an associate professor in Computer Science Department at Tsinghua University, China. He received his PhD degree from Tsinghua University in 2008. His current research interests are computer networks, high performance router architecture, and scalable switch fabric.

Beichuan Zhang is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at The University of Arizona, USA. Dr. Zhang received the PhD degree from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA in 2003 and BS degree from Peking University, China in 1995. He has been working on Named Data Networking, green networking, inter-domain routing, and overlay multicast. He received the first Applied Networking Research Prize in 2011 by ISOC and IRTF, and the best paper awards at IEEE ICDCS in 2005 and IWQoS in 2014. His research interest is in Internet routing architectures and protocols.

Ke Xu received his PhD from the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University, China. He is currently a full professor in the Department of Computer Science of Tsinghua University. He has published more than 100 technical papers and holds 20 patents in the research areas of next generation Internet, P2P systems, Internet of Things(IoT), network virtualization and optimization. He is a member of ACM. He has guest edited several special issues in IEEE and Springer Journals. He is serving as associate editor of Springer journal Networking Science.

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Li, M., Pei, D., Zhang, X. et al. Interest-suppression-based NDN live video broadcasting over wireless LAN. Front. Comput. Sci. 11, 675–687 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-016-5563-x

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