An Architecture for Distributing Scalable Content over Peer-to-Peer Networks

  • Authors:
  • Nicola Capovilla;Michael Eberhard;Silvano Mignanti;Riccardo Petrocco;Janne Vehkaperä

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • MMEDIA '10 Proceedings of the 2010 Second International Conferences on Advances in Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Peer-to-Peer systems are nowadays a very popular solution for multimedia distribution, as they provide significant cost benefits compared with traditional server-client distribution. Additionally, the distribution of scalable content enables the consumption of the content in a quality suited for the available bandwidth and the capabilities of the end-user devices. Thus, the distribution of scalable content over P2P networks is a very actual research topic. This paper presents an architecture for the distribution of scalable content in a fully distributed Peer-to-Peer network. The architectural description includes how the scalable layers of the content are mapped to the pieces distributed in the Peer-to-Peer system and detailed descriptions of the producer- and consumer-site architecture of the system. The presented system is to our knowledge the first open-source Peer-to-Peer network with full Scalable Video Coding support.