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Internet Multimedia Content Distribution

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A simple client/server architecture can quickly become infeasible when more media contents are made available online and more users are network—and multimedia—ready. There have been significant studies on efficient content distribution over the Internet, targeting a large number of users. Most of them were optimized for delivering conventional web objects or for file download. The huge size, intensive bandwidth use, and rich interactivity of streaming media, however, pose new challenges. Many emerging applications, such as Internet TV and live event broadcast, further demand real-time multimedia streaming services with a massive audience, and the scaling challenge can be enormous. In this chapter, we discuss content distribution mechanisms that enable high quality and scalable multimedia content streaming, including proxy caching, multicast, content distribution networks, peer-to-peer, and Web-based streaming.

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Li, ZN., Drew, M.S., Liu, J. (2021). Internet Multimedia Content Distribution. In: Fundamentals of Multimedia. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62124-7_16

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