Abstract
With the FON community has become the largest WiFi community in the world, the idea “Public-shared Network” it brought has been proved to be practicable. However, its highly-free organization approach without entire planning has caused the problem of “bandwidth wasting”. In addition, for modern people, watching video programs on the Internet has become one of entertainments. Therefore, this thesis proposes a scalable, robust, and high availability streaming delivering system, FONZ, by efficiently using the sharable bandwidth of public-shared network, like FON network. By the proposed “Bandwidth Expansion” concept and approach, the streaming source spends only a small amount of bandwidth to deliver the streamings, but the system is capable to serve a large number of clients to receive the video streaming simultaneously. Moreover, since the FONZ uses HTTP protocol to deliver the streaming, it has more chance to pass through most of the working firewalls. A workable prototype of the proposed FONZ system is also implemented to illustrate the feasibility of the whole concept. The proposed algorithm is embedded into the commercial FON platform. Based on this prototype system, a video streaming delivering system is constructed so that clients are able to receive the streaming delivered from the streaming source via the organized FON-based tree platform.