Multimedia Information Centric Networking

Information-centric networking (ICN) is an emerging technology for the future Internet architecture. Focusing on user interest and content distribution, ICN has the potential to achieve more efficient and scalable communication than traditional host-to-host networking solutions. According to the Cisco Visual Networking Index, multimedia, especially real-time videos, are the predominant traffic on the current Internet and continue to grow. It is also expected that more and more Internet multimedia traffic will be generated by distributed, wireless sensing devices. The delivery of multimedia information in ICNs requires sophisticated design due to the large amount of traffic, complicated syntax and bit stream organization, and quality requirements from users. The problem of providing quality guarantee for multimedia delivery in ICNs is largely unexplored. In particular, little is known about how to handle the multimedia content generated by wireless and embedded sensing devices in ICNs. Moreover, it is not clear how upper-layer multimedia processing techniques should be designed to benefit from the information-centric design in the network.

Our research group is addressing these problems, and the research goal is to enable efficient, reliable, and scalable video delivery in information-centric networks.
 

Related Publications

1. M. N. Sadat, R. Dai, L. Kong, and J. Zhu, "QoE-Aware Multi-Source Video Streaming in Content Centric Networks",  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 22, no. 9, pp. 2321-2330, Sept. 2020.
2. L. Kong, J. Zhu, R. Dai, and M. N. Sadat, "Impact of Distributed Caching on Video Streaming Quality in Information Centric Networks", IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM), Dec. 2017.