HLAF: heterogeneous-latency adaptive forwarding strategy for peer-assisted video streaming in NDN.

Abstract

Named Data Networking (NDN) is a promising Future Internet architecture to support efficient content distribution. Specifically, P2P may gain benefits from NDN, as NDN inherently provides a flexible forwarding plane for multi-source and multi-path communications. Existing studies in this area have proposed solutions, but these are adversely affected by link latency. This leads to illogical resource allocation and low link utilization for P2P. In this paper, we propose a new Heterogeneous-Latency Adaptive Forwarding (HLAF) strategy for peer-assisted video streaming in NDN. In peer-assisted video streaming, users (peers) proactively share the available content to others. By measuring the performance of forwarding interfaces, using both the level of congestion and the round-trip time, HLAF enables efficient P2P communication, which minimizes the latency and enhances the throughput. The experimental results show that the proposed strategy can enhance the peers' Quality of Experience (QoE).