System Evaluation of Hardware and Software for a Streaming Multimedia Server Using the Multicasting Protocol

Abstract

The next step in the evolution of services provided on an intranet or the internet will be distributed or distance learning with collaboration among peers. Currently, this is done on a one-to-one basis. To expand to a one-to-many collaboration environment, there needs to be a server distributing the mullimedia content without creating additional network traffic even though many users are accessing or viewing the multimedia content. Multicasting allows many users to view multimedia content without creating additional network traffic. There is a server providing multimedia content to a multicast address so users may access it. This thesis defines metrics and conducts a comparison of different servers capable of distributing multimedia content using the mullicasting protocol.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA418535

Entities

People

  • John Carls

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Data Links
  • Distance Learning
  • Electronic Mail
  • High Definition Television
  • Instruction Set Architecture
  • Internet
  • Network Protocols
  • Network Science
  • Operating Systems
  • Routing Protocols
  • Students
  • Video Teleconferencing

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
  • Computer Networking