A Study on the Development of the Internet Live-Broadcasting Server System

Advances of the computer system and the high-speed network have made it possible to popularize the multimedia services among various applications in the internet. In addition, the number of the users and the kinds of multimedia services have been increasing day by day. Thus, this paper presents an internet live-broadcasting server system to accelerate these trends. The developed system facilitates creating or joining the broadcasting with just such basic components as PC camera and sound card. Also, it guarantees the scalability that the channels could be dynamically expanded as the population of users rapidly increases. The clustered streaming servers are generically managed by the CSM ...