Video Streaming Over the Internet
Quality of service (QoS) in streaming of continuous media over the Internet is still poor and inconsistent. The degradation in quality of continuous media applications, involving delivery of video and audio is partly due to variations in delays as well as losses experienced by packets sent through wide-area networks. Although many such applications can tolerate some degree of missing information, significant losses degrade an application's quality of service.
The long term goal of this project is to provide significant improvements in the QoS experienced by viewers of continuous media (e.g., video) over the Internet. We aim to accomplish this by (a) finding under-utilized resources on the Internet, (b) using them to provide better quality of service in continuous media streaming over the Internet, and (c) accomplishing this through application-level adaptation and control mechanisms in delivery of continuous media over best effort networks.