*Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Thangavelu Engineering College, Chennai, India
**Department of Information Technology, Anna University, MIT Campus, Chennai, India
Video streaming is considered as a fast-growing research area. Nowadays video streaming is widely used in many applications such as Defence, Education, Medical, Engineering fields. This project deals about the problem of how to enable the streaming of live video content from a single server to a large number of clients. This increases the scalability of the system in a cost-effective manner. Here we try to demonstrate a prototype model and create a web application using Java and JSP Technologies. The live video streaming can be achieved using the Wirecast-a specialized tool of YouTube. The underlying coding mechanism used here is H.264 Scalable Video Coding (SVC). Instead of using the traditional transmission protocols like TCP and UDP, we have used a new mechanism Stream Transmission Control Protocol (SCTP) which combines the advantages of UDP and TCP and rather minimizes the disadvantages of them. The main advantages of SCTP includes the Multihoming and the Multistreaming. We have developed a simulation model for analysing the performance characteristics such as throughput, delay and Packet Delivery Ratio. Simulation experiments demonstrate that our design can achieve uninterrupted service, while not compromising the video quality, at moderate cost.
TCP, UDP, SCTP, H.264 and Wireless Network
