On-demand hd video using Jini based grid

Kent, S., Broadbent, P., Warren, N. and Gulliver, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4503-5448 (2008) On-demand hd video using Jini based grid. In: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2008, 2008-06-23 - 2008-06-26, Hannover, Germany, pp. 1045-1048.

Abstract/Summary

This research establishes the feasibility of using a network centric technology, Jini, to provide a grid framework on which to perform parallel video encoding. A solution was implemented using Jini and obtained real-time on demand encoding of a 480 HD video stream. Further, a projection is made concerning the encoding of 1080 HD video in real-time, as the current grid was not powerful enough to achieve this above 15fps. The research found that Jini is able to provide a number of tools and services highly applicable in a grid environment. It is also suitable in terms of performance and responds well to a varying number of grid nodes. The main performance limiter was found to be the network bandwidth allocation, which when loaded with a large number of grid nodes was unable to handle the traffic.