Tile-based panoramic live video streaming on ICN

Abstract

Information-centric networking (ICN) is a future Internet architecture that makes it possible to effectively use various in-network functions, such as cache storage, computing resources and multi-path. However, applications need to be carefully designed in order to fully gain the benefits of these functions. This paper presents a 360-degree panoramic live video streaming application as an example of an application design suitable for in-network functions, especially cache storage. The key ideas are content sharing by video frame tiling and load balancing by transcoding. The implementation based on the application design shows the benefits and the problems of these features. Additionally, this paper discusses problems that remain to be resolved