Modeling and performance analysis of BitTorrent-like peer-to-peer networks
Proceedings of the 2004 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Distributed prefetching scheme for random seek support in peer-to-peer streaming applications
Proceedings of the ACM workshop on Advances in peer-to-peer multimedia streaming
A peer-to-peer on-demand streaming service and its performance evaluation
ICME '03 Proceedings of the 2003 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo - Volume 1
OBN: Peering for Finding Suppliers in P2P On-demand Streaming Systems
ICPADS '06 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems - Volume 1
Understanding user behavior in large-scale video-on-demand systems
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2006
Can internet video-on-demand be profitable?
Proceedings of the 2007 conference on Applications, technologies, architectures, and protocols for computer communications
Challenges, design and analysis of a large-scale p2p-vod system
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2008 conference on Data communication
RINDY: a ring based overlay network for peer-to-peer on-demand streaming
UIC'06 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
A Measurement Study of a Large-Scale P2P IPTV System
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
A Bayesian approach for user aware peer-to-peer video streaming systems
Image Communication
StrU: a user behaviour-aware video-on-demand streaming service
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Mobile Computing & Multimedia
BitTorrent-like P2P approaches for VoD: A comparative study
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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P2P-based Video on Demand (P2P VoD) systems can provide higher quality video services than P2P live systems. However, owing to the unavailability of open source codes, the characteristics of P2P VoD systems have not been fully explored. For this purpose, in this paper, we first implemented reverse engineering to the protocols of two most popular VoD systems used in China. Peers' watching behavior and network sharing were then studied through the measured buffer messages. Based on our study, we found that uploading-only peers were more than downloading peers, and smooth-watching peers were more than randomly-seeking peers in the current P2P VoD systems. This finding is significantly different from the existing P2P-based file dissemination systems and the results obtained in the previous work on VoD systems. Furthermore, this study revealed the relations between watching behavior and network sharing. It has been observed that randomly-seeking peers will provide more regular as well as rare chunks than smooth-watching peers. A simple mathematical model was established to analytically demonstrate the relation between the watching index (WI) distribution and network-sharing profile, and this relation was also validated by our measured data.