Measurements, analysis, and modeling of BitTorrent-like systems
IMC '05 Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCOMM conference on Internet Measurement
On the minimum delay peer-to-peer video streaming: how realtime can it be?
Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Multimedia
Performance bounds for peer-assisted live streaming
SIGMETRICS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
Epidemic live streaming: optimal performance trade-offs
SIGMETRICS '08 Proceedings of the 2008 ACM SIGMETRICS international conference on Measurement and modeling of computer systems
A Measurement Study of a Large-Scale P2P IPTV System
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
LiveSky: Enhancing CDN with P2P
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Distributed online flash-crowd detection in P2P swarming systems
Computer Communications
Popularity decays in peer-to-peer VoD systems: Impact, model, and design implications
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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Peer-to-Peer (P2P) live video streaming systems have recently received significant attention, with commercial deployment gaining increased popularity in the Internet. It is evident in our empirical experiences with real-world systems that, it is not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of viewers trying to join a program in the first few minutes of a live broadcast. This phenomenon in live streaming systems, referred as the flash crowd, poses unique challenges in the system design. In this paper, we develop a mathematical model to capture the inherent relationship between time and scale during a flash crowd. We derive an upper bound on the system scale, and then demonstrate that the timing factor plays a critical role for such a system to scale. In addition, our analysis also brings a more indepth understanding with respect to the use of Gossip protocols, i.e., the effects of partial knowledge.