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Giodi Giorgi <[email protected]>1
Gruppo RETI di TELECOMUNICAZIONI
Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione - Università di Pisa
Pisa, 6 Dicembre 2005
Giodi Giorgi
An Integrated PlatformAn Integrated Platform
for Multimedia Applicationsfor Multimedia Applications
VIII Workshop PisaTel 2005
Giodi Giorgi <[email protected]>2
Technologies & components
• System and Services– Distance Learning– Voice over IP– Video steaming & Video on Demand– TV broadcasting
• Network infrastructure– Streaming platform– Multi-Access Inter-Domain architecture for dynamic setup of
QoS-IP services• that does not interfere with the background signaling
– End-to-end dynamic and tailored Quality of Service• IWU (Inter Working Unit)
Giodi Giorgi <[email protected]>3
Distributed trial
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Distance Learning Requirements
Students– To follow on-line lesson using commonly available software tools (RealOne
Player, NetMeeting, web browser) with different quality level, depending on his/her type of access to network
Teacher– Oriented to content providing, should produce enhanced contents entailing video
and audio, external data and auxiliary teaching tools
Software and equipment– a video camera– a video capture card (Osprey 230)– a video encoder (Helix DNA producer)– a video broadcasting server (Helix DNA server)– a software to create on-demand multimedia presentations and to synchronize
audio and video with PowerPoint slides and other media learning objects.– WEB interface and Content Management server– client-side software (RealOne video Client, WEB browser, VoIP terminal)
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Distance learning: portal
• WEB interface login• Language selection• Available features differentiated
for users and groups
• User functionalities set by administrator• Available tools: file storage,
calendar/diary, address book, instant messaging, on-line users ...
• Each user can belong to one or more groups (associated to each course)
• Group functionalities set by admin• Available tools: file storage, forum, instant
messaging, lessons, projects …
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Distance learning: student side
• Unicast and multicast live streaming
• MPEG-4 real-time multi-rate encoding
• Encoding rate from 128 Kb/s to 1.5 Mb/s, with resolutions up to 640x480@25fps
• Frame-accurate synchronization of audio/video streams with dynamic remote learning objects
• Transparent storage of real-time encoded lessons
• Teacher interaction by means of instant messaging tools
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Distance learning: teacher side
• Slideshows loaded into the WEB server• The teacher can see the preview of his slide at any time• During the lesson, the slide inclusion into the live stream is provided
by means of simple click
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Distance learning
• WEB interfaces login (stud/teach)• teachers: access WEB page with
slideshow
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Distance learning
• WEB interfaces login (stud/teach)• teachers: access WEB page with
slideshow• students: start RealOne to see
video/slides, browser to view additional data and send messages
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WEB Server
PPT ExporterSlideshow
Before the lesson
.ppt .html
During the lesson
Teacher GUI
Encoder Player
sources
URL
a/v
Server
Simple application which converts slides into HTML pages and transfers them to WEB server
Distance learning: content production
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Distance learning: content production
WEB Server
PPT ExporterSlideshow
Before the lesson
.ppt .html
During the lesson
Teacher GUI
Encoder Player
sources
URL
a/v
Server
WEB interface which displays
slides and includes their URL in the
stream after a teacher click
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Distance learning: content recorder
During the lesson
Configuration GUI
Encoder
sources
a/v
Server
GUI allows to configure easily the
main producer options which are
relevant for lesson production purposes
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The whiteboard application
• The teacher can use any free-hand drawing tool (e.g. Windows Journal for Tablet PC)
• The application window is periodically captured and sent to an encoding application
• A video stream containing the text and pictures is created and sent to the video server, which broadcasts it on the network
• This additional stream is synchronized with the others using SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language )
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First case study
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Voice over IP
• Software VoIP terminal• Gatekeeper registration• H.323 call (gatekeeper-routed)
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Video on Demand
• WEB interfaces to select the content from the archive of pre-loaded films– Helix MPEG-4 video server, open
source project from Real
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Video on Demand
• WEB interfaces to select the content from the archive of pre-loaded films – Helix MPEG-4 video server, open
source project from Real
• Video streaming– RealOne video Client
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TV broadcasting
• WEB interfaces to select the channel– MPEG4IP: MPEG-4, MP3/AAC broadcaster
and file recorder open source project
– Darwin Streaming Server: open source project from Apple
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TV broadcasting
• WEB interfaces to select the channel– MPEG4IP: MPEG-4, MP3/AAC broadcaster
and file recorder open source project
– Darwin Streaming Server: open source project from Apple
• TV channel reception– RealOne player with EnVivio plugin installed
Giodi Giorgi <[email protected]>23
Technologies & components
• System and Services– Distance Learning– Voice over IP– Video steaming & Video on Demand– TV broadcasting
• Network infrastructure– Streaming platform– Multi-Access Inter-Domain architecture for dynamic setup of
QoS-IP services• that does not interfere with the background signaling
– End-to-end dynamic and tailored Quality of Service• IWU (Inter Working Unit)
Giodi Giorgi <[email protected]>24
Streaming platform
Generalized and automatic IP Control Plane architecture
(i.e. the Multi-Access Inter-Domain – MAID) for the dynamic and tailored configuration of
QoS-IP services, carrying the multimedia streams across a MPLS/DiffServ IP backbone.
HTTP Server
Remote Terminals(ADSL, Ethernet, Wireless)
Encoding/Streaming
Server
HTTP/RTSP QoS-IPQoS-IPGeographical Geographical Network layerNetwork layer
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The MAID scenario• Different protocols/technologies are used in the access network (e.g. H.323,
SIP, MPEG-4, etc.)
• … and the required QoS is often not explicitly declared in the access signaling flow (e.g. H.323)
UNI
H.323
RSVPSIP
MPEG-4 IP DiffServ/MPLSnetwork
Multi-Protocol Access network
Multi-AccessBorder Router
MA-BR
Multi-AccessBorder Router
MA-BR
Service RequestsService
Requests
MPLS
Bandwidth Broker
MAID-BB
Bandwidth Broker
MAID-BB
COPS-MAID
MMAAMMAA
IDIDIDID
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The MAID scenario
IP DiffServ/MPLSnetwork
Multi-AccessBorder Router
MA-BR
Multi-AccessBorder Router
MA-BR
Bandwidth Broker
MAID-BB
Bandwidth Broker
MAID-BB
COPS-MAID
Two basic elements in our MAID architecture:
• The MAID Bandwidth Broker (BB)– manages network resources
– admission control and policies
– configures core routers
– inter-domain communications
• The Multiple-Access Border Router (MA-BR)– must understand as much as possible QoS semantics
– translates the access QoS into interior QoS syntax (complexity on the BR)• appropriate Inter Working Units (IWUs) are used to map protocol specific
messages into generalized client messages.
– triggers the setup of QoS-IP services upon receiving QoS requests from the access networks