A Novel Real-time Video Transmission Approach for Remote Laboratory Development

Authors

  • Ning Wang Texas Southern University
  • Xuemin Chen Texas Southern University
  • Gangbing Song University of Houston
  • Hamid Parsaei Texas A&M University at Qatar

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v11i1.3167

Keywords:

Remote Laboratory, HTTP Live Streaming, HLS, FFMPEG, Across Firewall.

Abstract


Remote laboratories are an inevitable necessity for Internet enabled education in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) fields due to their effectiveness, flexibility, cost savings, and the fact that they provide many benefits to students, instructors and researchers. Accordingly, real-time experiment live video streaming is an essential part of remote experimentation operation. Nevertheless, in the development of real-time experiment video transmission, it is a key and difficult issue that the video is transferred across the network firewall in most of the current remote laboratory solutions. To address the network firewall issue, we developed a complete novel solution via HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) protocol and FFMPEG that is a powerful cross-platform command line video trans-code/encoding software package on the server side. In this paper, a novel, real-time video streaming transmission approach based on HLS for the remote laboratory development is presented. With this new solution, the terminal users can view the real-time experiment live video streaming on any portable device without any firewall issues or the need for a third party plug-in., This new solution also significantly benefits remote laboratory development in the future.

Author Biographies

Ning Wang, Texas Southern University

Ning Wang, a graduate student of Computer Science department at Texas Southern University. His research interests include virtual and remote laboratory development.

Xuemin Chen, Texas Southern University

Xuemin Chen, associate professor of Engineering Technology at Texas Southern University. His research interests include virtual and remote laboratory development and energy efficient wireless sensor networks.

Gangbing Song, University of Houston

Gangbing Song, professor of Mechanical Engineering at University of Houston. His research interests include remote laboratory development, smart material and control.

Hamid Parsaei, Texas A&M University at Qatar

Hamid Parsaei, professor of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University at Qatar. His interests include industrial engineering and ABET education.

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Published

2015-01-25

How to Cite

Wang, N., Chen, X., Song, G., & Parsaei, H. (2015). A Novel Real-time Video Transmission Approach for Remote Laboratory Development. International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering (iJOE), 11(1), pp. 4–9. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijoe.v11i1.3167

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Papers

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