Distribution Agnostic Video Server: a Novel Approach Towards Video Server Design

With the advances of network and communication technology, real time audio and video streaming services are becoming progressively popular over the Internet. In order to enable universal access of multimedia streaming content and thus the desired end-to-end QoS, it is very desirable to design a video server. A video server, that can dynamically coupled to different streaming engines and deployed in a test bed for conducting different streaming experiments.