Content pollution on P2P Live Streaming systems

  • Authors:
  • João Oliveira;Alex Borges;Sérgio Campos

  • Affiliations:
  • Fed. Univ. of Minas Gerais;Fed. Univ. of Minas Gerais;Fed. Univ. of Minas Gerais

  • Venue:
  • WebMedia '09 Proceedings of the XV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

P2P Live Streaming are subject to content pollution attack. This technology has high potential for the continuous consumption, however, the intentional degradation can become fatal for adherence and maintenance of users. This work deals with the characterization of SopCast traffic, showing behaviors of the system with pollution and the impacts of the attack. We observed the degrading effect of a node that, in several samples, was able to commit more than 30% of the download bandwidth of the network and over 50% of the peers. The results show that the system is susceptible to attacks which aim quality degradation.