Sprinkler: Distributed content storage for just-in-time streaming

Sourav Kumar Dandapat, Swadhin Pradhan, Niloy Ganguly, Romit Roy Choudhury

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

Abstract

We envision cities where networking infrastructures, such as Wi-Fi access points (AP), will be equipped with storage capabilities. We propose to utilize the storage as a large dis- tributed video cache. If successful, we envision that a child will be able to seamlessly watch a movie in a car, as her tablet downloads necessary parts of the movie over different Wi-Fi APs. The key challenge arises from the fact that the mobile tablet would not be able to download the entire movie from any single AP. Nonetheless, we show that the APs could be appropriately populated with video "chunks", such that the tablet can almost always get the needed chunk, just-in-time for video playback. Our system minimizes replication of video chunks, offering citizens with far greater number of videos to watch. We believe that such a video service could benefit cellular networks, by offloading their traffic to a sizable extent. This paper takes a first step into exploring such a city-wide content distribution service, and addresses one piece of the puzzle - efficient content storage. Categories and Subject Descriptors C.2.1[Network Architecture and Design]: Wireless communication.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCellNet 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Workshop on Cellular Networks
Subtitle of host publicationOperations, Challenges, and Future Design
Pages19-24
Number of pages6
DOIs
StatePublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 ACM MobiSys Workshop on on Cellular Networks: Operations, Challenges, and Future Design, CellNet 2013 - Taipei, Taiwan, Province of China
Duration: Jun 25 2013Jun 25 2013

Publication series

NameCellNet 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Workshop on Cellular Networks: Operations, Challenges, and Future Design

Other

Other2013 ACM MobiSys Workshop on on Cellular Networks: Operations, Challenges, and Future Design, CellNet 2013
Country/TerritoryTaiwan, Province of China
CityTaipei
Period6/25/136/25/13

Keywords

  • Network cache management
  • Video streaming
  • VoD

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications

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