A Case for Internet Streaming via Web Servers

Abstract

Hosting Internet streaming services has its unique challenges. Aiming at making Internet streaming services be widely and easily adopted in practice, in this paper, we have designed and implemented a system, called SProxy that can leverage existing Internet infrastructure to free the streaming content providers so that they only need to host streaming content through a regular Web server. SProxy has been extensively tested and evaluated and it provides high quality streaming delivery in both local area networks and wide area networks (e.g. between Japan and US).