Deployment of multi-hour ability to overlay construction network for future internet

Abstract

Various path-diverse overlay construction schemes have been adapted widely for future internet technology in order to overcome the bandwidth scarcity and achieve efficient resource usage. In this paper, we propose a quite intuitional approach that deploys multi-hour ability to the path-diverse overlay construction for video streaming. Multi-hour ability exploits a simple phenomenon that bandwidth utilization varies from hour to hour. We show that multi-hour ability yields an important principle in the overlay construction, and as a result, each peer expects to achieve better quality of streaming.