Internet Video Broadcast

Speaker:	Dr. Bo LI
		Associate Professor
		Department of Computer Science & Engineering
		Hong Kong University of Science & Technology

Title: 		"Internet Video Broadcast"

Date:		Monday, 5 March 2007

Time:		4:00pm -5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre F
		(Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

Abstract:

Internet video broadcast is perhaps the greatest unfulfilled promise of
the Internet. The fundamental problem that throttles the large-scale
deployment of Internet video broadcast is the unsatisfied performance from
end-users, which are caused by a combination of many factors such as the
autonomous nature of the Internet, inherent instability and lack of
service guarantee. This is further challenged by sustainable bandwidth and
stringent continuity requirement of streaming applications. Recent
development in Peer-to-Peer streaming technology brings unprecedented
momentum to the Internet video broadcast, which has been shown to be cost
effective, scalable and easy to deploy.

This talk reviews the state-of-the-art Internet video broadcast technology
and its development from a historic perspective. Based our earlier
successes of a large-scale system, Coolstreaming, we discuss the main
innovations and the key trade-off in the system design. We also provide
our observations on the future development and open issues.



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Biography:

Bo LI received his Ph.D. degree from University of Massachusetts at
Amherst in 1993. Between 1993 and 1996, he was with IBM Networking System,
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Since 1996, he has been a faculty
in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology. His current research interests are
on peer-to-peer live streaming, content distribution and replication.