[Mini-NDN] Generate large amounts of video files traffic in Mini-NDN

[Philipp Moll]

Hi Jiacheng,

Thanks for dropping a message. In MiniNDN, you can basically use any 
headless NDN application you want. MiniNDN just starts the application 
using a bash-command. But I think answering your question becomes easier 
when knowing more details about what you want to achieve. Publishing and 
retrieving large video files could be interpreted in many ways.

If you simply want to handle those large video files as large files, we 
have tools like ndncatchunks and ndnputchunks to publish/consume files 
from the file system: 
https://github.com/named-data/ndn-tools/tree/master/tools/chunks

When you want to emulate something like Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over 
MiniNDN, it might be good to use something like a DAS dataset that 
already has pre-computed video-segments (here's one example dataset: 
https://dash.itec.aau.at/dash-dataset/). To retrieve these segments, you 
might use emulated video streaming clients that retrieve the 
pre-computed segments based on some adaption logic..

Junxiao did some recent work on video streaming. He has streaming 
publishers and clients available for TypeScript. See here: 
https://github.com/yoursunny/NDNts-video

Without having tried, but since those are TypeScript clients, they 
should also work in MiniNDN. At least the producer should run, and maybe 
Junxiao also has a headless consumer that can be used with MiniNDN.

But as I said first, it really depends on what you want to do.

Best,
Philipp

On 7/29/21 4:26 PM, JIACHENG HOU via Mini-NDN wrote:
>
> Hi, Mini-NDN teams,
>
> Before I tried generating a bunch of traffic using 
> ndn-traffic-generator. However, it seems that the 
> ndn-traffic-generator is not suitable for publishing and retrieving 
> large video files.
>
> I am wondering are there any recommended tools to generate a lot of 
> traffic for video files in Mini-NDN?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Jiacheng
>
>
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