Scalable control panel for media streaming in NDN

Abstract

An NDN-based scalable control panel for a media streaming system was designed and implemented in this paper. The system is developed based on a previous IP-based P2P media streaming system named Hippo [1], which contains a group of control servers to manipulate P2P functionalities, such as the tracker, etc. System scalability becomes one of the most difficult problems when the user size of P2P system grows very large. We took the advantages from the same principle of SNC [2] to design the NDN-Hippo's control layer. As for implementation, we took a two-step approach: First porting the control layer of Hippo to NDN-based system, then porting media traffic layer later. By separating control and media layers, our demo demonstrates that not only some management functions of tracker can be smartly and instinctively achieved in NDN, but also the scalability of NDN version of Hippo has been greatly improved.