Adaptive Video Streaming over CCN with Network Coding for Seamless Mobility

We consider the benefits brought by network coding in Information-Centric Networks (ICNs) in the case of a video streaming application. Network coding, when combined with ICN, allows a data transfer session to use multiple sources for the content seamlessly. It permits the client fetching the content to use multiple interfaces at the same time in an asynchronous manner, while using their capacity in an additive manner. This allows to create a logical link between the user and the content. In the case of video streaming, this logical link allows the rate adaptation logic to find the proper streaming rate while using multiple links concurrently. We implemented a video streaming system which works using network coding and CCN. We have shown that this implementation performs satisfactorily, and has comparable performance to a system without network coding in the unicast single source, single path case, and delivers significant performance gain (better QoE, higher throughput) when the video client retrieves the stream from multiple concurrent sources. We hope to demonstrate that network coding and CCN provides seamless mobility for a video streaming application.