ISMuS: an interactive scalable multimedia streaming system

Advances in Internet technology and provision of constantly increasing bandwidth capabilities to end-users, have increased the need for streaming media services that can match the quality of traditional TV broadcast and offer enhanced user interactivity. In this paper, the target services, as well as specific implementation details of a scalable interactive multimedia streaming platform named ISMuS is presented. The platform is capable of providing high quality streaming service based on MPEG-4 encoded streams, through the use of scalable video coding technology and a media distribution architecture based on overlay network technology