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Low-Latency Delivery Networks for Multimedia Streaming

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The primary QoE metric of multimedia streaming is the latency of the streaming. CDN technology is a widely-used technique to achieve low-latency streaming. However, CDN can only cover conventional streaming that have a static nature. The interactive streaming enabled by the MSC platform is highly dynamic and relies on the on-demand processing of the multimedia content. Accordingly, this chapter investigates solutions to provide dynamism required by the interactive streaming. In particular, the notion of Fog Delivery Networks (FDN) and federation of the FDNs (a.k.a. F-FDN) is proposed in this chapter. It is shown how F-FDN can provide multi-source streaming by leveraging neighbors within the FDN network.

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Amini Salehi, M., Li, X. (2021). Low-Latency Delivery Networks for Multimedia Streaming. In: Multimedia Cloud Computing Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88451-2_7

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