Development of multimedia streaming technology over bandwidth-limited network and its implementation in rural area

Abstract

There is a big difference between the development of rural area and city area in Indonesia. Education level in the countryside is far less superior to town life. In order to address that problem, information and communication technology (ICT) will be used. Multimedia streaming technology is a solution to enhance the quality of life in rural area. However, the development of Internet network infrastructure in countryside is still not as good as in big cities. As a result, the people in countryside faced instability network problem. This situation is called bandwidth limited network, a condition which is caused by the up and down of Internet speed. Because of that, a multimedia streaming technology which can be operated over bandwidth-limited network is developed. In this paper, we present the development of multimedia streaming technology and its application in rural area of Indonesia. Specifically, we investigated about the performance of the multimedia streaming technology using eighteen parameters, focusing in audio-video delay, jitter, and jitter buffer. The result showed that the average video delay when there was no Internet problem was under 1 second, captured jitter average was at 3 ms, jitter buffer was under 1 second, and total bandwidth was far under 3.9 Mbps. As a result, the multimedia streaming technology is very suitable to be implemented in bandwidth limited network to enhance the quality of education in rural area of Indonesia.