Peer-to-peer collaborative video-on-demand streaming over mobile content centric networking

Nowadays, multimedia is omnipresent in the Internet and generates the major total traffic in fixed and mobile networks. While video streaming services become more crucial for mobile users, their traffic may often exceed the bandwidth capacity of cellular networks. Content Centric Networking (CCN) can be an attractive solution which adapts the network architecture to the current network usage pattern. In this paper, we propose a CCN peer-to-peer video-on-demand streaming protocol based on scalable video coding. We implement a collaborative strategy which improves the video segments availability in the network and reduces latency relying on CCN functionalities such as caching and routing by name. We also propose a control strategy allowing to scale to highly dynamic networks. Through the tests carried out to evaluate the performance of our solution, we show its effectiveness. Indeed, it reduces significantly the initial playback delay and enhances the streaming quality compared to a traditional service with no collaboration policy.