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Design and implementation of a proxy caching system for streaming media

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With the widespread use of streaming media application on the Internet, a significant change in Internet workload will be provoked. Caching is one of the applied techniques for enhancing the scalability of streaming system and reducing the workload of server/network. Aiming at the characteristics of broadband network in community, we propose a popularity-based server-proxy caching strategy for streaming medias, and implement the prototype of streaming proxy caching based on this strategy, using RTSP as control protocol and RTP for content transport. This system can play a role in decreasing server load, reducing the traffic from streaming server to proxy, and improving the start-up latency of the client.

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  1. College of Computer Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 430074, Wuhan Hubei, China

    Tan Jin, Yu Sheng-sheng & Zhou Jing-li

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Foundation item: Supported by the National High Technology Development 863 Program of China (2001AA111011).

Biography: Tan Jin (1962-), male, Ph. D candidate, research direction: network communications, multimedia technologies, and web caching.

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Jin, T., Sheng-sheng, Y. & Jing-li, Z. Design and implementation of a proxy caching system for streaming media. Wuhan Univ. J. Nat. Sci. 9, 31–36 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02912713

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