Students Create P2P Video on Demand Systems

This evening, students in computer science professor Klara Nahrstedt’s Multimedia Systems (CS 414) course will be demonstrating the video-on-demand peer-to-peer streaming systems they have built over the past semester as part of a competition. 

The students have been working in teams in the Pavlov Media Multimedia lab to create a system that is capable of fetching video segments from a video server or other neighboring peers, and put the videos into the local video buffers. As part of the competition, the teams will be judged by Prof. Nahrstedt, members of the CS department Technology Services Group, and Dave Goodman of Alcatel Lucent. 

The student-created systems must play the video from the buffer to a GUI interface; respond to GUI commands like play, pause, and stop; manage the video buffer and fetch missing video segments over the network to display to the end user; perform time synchronization so that the video content is displayed in streaming mode; and handle peer failure by adaptively fetching content from the server or find new neighbors in the event of neighbor failure.

The competition will take place starting at 5 p.m. in the Pavlov Media Multimedia Lab in room 0216 at Siebel Center.