Migration Towards Cloud-Assisted Live Media Streaming

—Live media streaming has become one of the most popular applications over the Internet. We have witnessed the successful deployment of commercial systems with CDN- or peerto-peer based engines. While each being effective in certain aspects, having an all-round scalable, reliable, responsive and cost-effective solution remains an illusive goal. Moreover, today’s live streaming services have become highly globalized, with subscribers from all over the world. Such a globalization makes user behaviors and demands even more diverse and dynamic, further challenging state-of-the-art system designs. The emergence of cloud computing however sheds new lights into this dilemma. Leveraging the elastic resource provisioning from cloud, we present CALMS (Cloud-Assisted Live Media Streaming), a generic framework that facilitates a migration to the cloud. CALMS adaptively leases and adjusts cloud server resources in a fine granularity to accommodate temporal and spatial dynamics of demands from ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2016
• Where: TON
• Authors: Feng Wang, Jiangchuan Liu, Minghua Chen, Haiyang Wang
• Keywords: TON 2016