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Measurement of Commercial Peer-to-Peer Live Video Streaming (2006)
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@MISC{Ali06measurementof,
author = {Shahzad Ali and Anket Mathur and Hui Zhang},
title = {Measurement of Commercial Peer-to-Peer Live Video Streaming},
year = {2006}
}
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Abstract
Peer-to-peer technologies have proved to be effective for various bandwidth intensive, large scale applications such as file-transfer. For many years, there has been tremendous interest in academic environments for live video streaming as another application of P2P. Recently, a number of new commercial scale video streaming systems have cropped up. These systems differ from others in the type of content that they provide and attract a large number of users from across the globe. These are proprietary systems and very little is known about their architecture and behavior. This study is one of the first of its kind to analyze the performance and characteristics of P2P live streaming applications. In particular, we analyze PPLive and SOPCast, two of the most popular systems in this class. In this paper, we (1) present a framework in which to analyze these P2P applications from a single observable point, (2) analyze control traffic to present a probable operation model and (3) present analysis of resource usage, locality and stability of data distribution. We conclude that P2P live streaming has an even greater impact on network bandwidth utilization and control than P2P file transfer applications.
Keyphrases
commercial peer-to-peer live video streaming live video streaming single observable point academic environment analyze control traffic various bandwidth intensive tremendous interest probable operation model large scale application proprietary system new commercial scale video large number present analysis p2p file transfer application peer-to-peer technology network bandwidth utilization p2p application popular system many year data distribution resource usage
