Project Title:

A Video Streaming Solution Harnessing Peer to Peer Technology

Yi Cui  

Brief Description of Project:

The tremendous success of video-hosting services, such as YouTube, promotes the vision of rich Internet applications. The success is much due to its easy-to-use web interface and instant viewing of media content in a streaming mode. However, the client-server model of such services incurs prohibitive operational cost (e.g., the estimated $2.7M/month bandwidth expense by YouTube) constantly growing with the volume of content being served and the number of visitors. This downside significantly inhibits the innovation of future media-rich applications such as online education.

This project aims to attack this problem using peer-to-peer technologies, which leverages client machine's uplink bandwidth to reduce overhead on the server side. Over the last year, we have designed and developed http://vandyvideo.com, the prototype of a web-based peer-to-peer streaming system. This year's focus is on the integrative solution with the latest rich Internet application hosting technologies, such as Microsoft Silverlight, Google Desktop, etc. Research topics include the design and implementation of new inter-peer streaming protocols, etc.
 

Nature of Supervision:

One-on-one discussion with the PI, work with graduate students

A Brief Research Plan (period is for 10 weeks):

1-2: System Architecture Design.
3-4: Learning about statistical methods used in the anomaly intrusion detection.
5-7: Developing methods for statistical-based false information detection.
8-9: System integration.
10: Small-scale testing.

Number of Open Slots:

1

Contact Information:

Yi Cui
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
615-322-2707
yi.cui@vanderbilt.edu