Mobile video streaming is a natural augmentation to today’s thriving Internet video streaming service. With the rapid growth of the capability of mobile handheld devices and abundant bandwidth from high-speed wireless networks, it is expected that mobile video streaming service will soon become a lucrative business section and a thrust for technological advancement on computer and telecommunication industries. In this chapter, essential technical components for constructing mobile video streaming systems are introduced. They include the latest development on broadband wireless technology and video-capable mobile handheld devices. As many modern technologies are often driven by consumer demand, user experience and expectation are discussed from the perspective of mobile video streaming. At the end, several cutting-edge research and development breakthroughs are presented as they may change the future of mobile video streaming systems.
ViVUD: Virtual Server Cluster Based View-Upload Decoupling for Multi-Channel P2P Video Streaming Systems