ICNP '97 Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Network Protocols (ICNP '97)
BRITE: Universal Topology Generation from a User''s Perspective
BRITE: Universal Topology Generation from a User''s Perspective
Scaling laws and tradeoffs in peer-to-peer live multimedia streaming
MULTIMEDIA '06 Proceedings of the 14th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia
Peer-to-peer communication across network address translators
ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Structured streams: a new transport abstraction
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Do incentives build robustness in bit torrent
NSDI'07 Proceedings of the 4th USENIX conference on Networked systems design & implementation
Topology Dynamics in a P2PTV Network
NETWORKING '09 Proceedings of the 8th International IFIP-TC 6 Networking Conference
| Hi-index | 0.00 |
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) streaming has emerged as a scalable method for media distribution in recent years. While recent measurement studies have shown the effectiveness of P2P network in media streaming, there have been questions raised about the Quality of Service (QoS), reliability of streaming services and sub optimal uplink utilization in particular. We present a new model for P2P media streaming where nodes cluster into groups, called alliances, for a symbiotic association in order to share the media content. We show that alliance formation is an effective way to organize the peers in loosely coupled groups. The node topology formed using alliances generates a Small World Network, which exhibit efficient overlay structures in terms of path lengths between the nodes and robustness to network perturbations like churn. We present a comparative performance evaluation of our model with CoolStreaming/DONet on QoS metrics.