Answer to Question #219043 in Computer Networks for stan

Question

Using the AIT Internet provision for lectures to be streamed online as a case study, discuss the kind(s) of challenge(s) faced by lecturers (e.g IT101) using the Internet service(s) provided by the school for the online streaming and its impact on students (both on campus and at home/hostel). Discuss what you think could be done to resolve such challenge(s)..

Answer 1

The issue faced by the AIT internet provision for the online streaming are listed below :

Bandwidth limitations:

As we have seen the common issue in the streaming of video is poor quality of the video. Which is happening because of the low bandwidth. The higher resolution video and the larger capability presents the new challenges.

Latency and reliability issue:

When the bandwidth is higher, then the rate of data flow is quite high due to which the massive amount of data are being delivered, which may be the cause of the latency and reliability issue.

The prevention of latency is to use multi-CDN.

Metadata and search challenges:

We have seen the cataloging of the video, which is happening because of the human error. Which is the sim-categories information.