Measuring Mobile Peer-to-Peer Usage: Case Finland 2007
PAM '09 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Passive and Active Network Measurement
Providing statistically guaranteed streaming quality for peer-to-peer live streaming
Proceedings of the 18th international workshop on Network and operating systems support for digital audio and video
Stability and performance of overlay multicast systems employing forward error correction
Performance Evaluation
Distributed sender scheduling for multimedia transmission in wireless mobile peer-to-peer networks
IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications
On characterizing PPStream: measurement and analysis of P2P IPTV under large-scale broadcasting
GLOBECOM'09 Proceedings of the 28th IEEE conference on Global telecommunications
Bandwidth adaptation in streaming overlays
COMSNETS'10 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on COMmunication systems and NETworks
Cooperative caching and relaying strategies for peer-to-peer content delivery
IPTPS'08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Peer-to-peer systems
Content pollution on P2P Live Streaming systems
WebMedia '09 Proceedings of the XV Brazilian Symposium on Multimedia and the Web
Understanding overlay characteristics of a large-scale peer-to-peer IPTV system
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP)
Diagnosing network-wide P2P live streaming inefficiencies
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMCCAP) - Special Issue on P2P Streaming
On dynamic server provisioning in multichannel P2P live streaming
IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking (TON)
End-to-end available bandwidth estimation tools, an experimental comparison
TMA'10 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis
Partial forwarding vs. partial participation for dynamic window resizing in P2P streaming
Computer Networks: The International Journal of Computer and Telecommunications Networking
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The fundamental advantage of peer-to-peer (P2P) multimedia streaming applications is to leverage peer upload capacities to minimize bandwidth costs on dedicated streaming servers. The available bandwidth among peers is of pivotal importance to P2P streaming applications, especially as the number of peers in the streaming session reaches a very large scale. In this paper, we utilize more than 230 GB of traces collected from a commercial P2P streaming system, UUSee, over a four-month period of time. With such traces, we seek to thoroughly understand and characterize the achievable bandwidth of streaming flows among peers in large-scale real-world P2P live streaming sessions, in order to derive useful insights towards the improvement of current-generation P2P streaming protocols, such as peer selection. Using continuous traces over a long period of time, we explore evolutionary properties of inter-peer bandwidth. Focusing on representative snapshots of the entire topology at specific times, we investigate distributions of inter-peer bandwidth in various peer ISP/area/type categories, and statistically test and model the deciding factors that cause the variance of such inter-peer bandwidth. Our original discoveries in this study include: (1) The ISPs that peers belong to are more correlated to inter-peer bandwidth than their geographic locations; (2) There exist excellent linear correlations between peer last-mile bandwidth availability and inter-peer bandwidth within the same ISP, and between a subset of ISPs as well; and (3) The evolution of inter-peer bandwidth between two ISPs exhibits daily variation patterns. Based on these insights, we design a throughput expectation index that facilitates high-bandwidth peer selection without performing any measurements.