substream trading: Towards an open P2P live streaming system

Zhengye Liu, Yanming Shen, Keith W. Ross, Shivendra S. Panwar, Yao Wang

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Abstract

We consider the design of an open P2P live-video streaming system. When designing a live video system that is both open and P2P, the system must include mechanisms that incentivize peers to contribute upload capacity. We advocate an incentive principle for live P2P streaming: a peer's video quality is commensurate with its upload rate. We propose Substream Trading, a new P2P streaming design which not only enables differentiated video quality commensurate with a peer's upload contribution but can also accommodate different video coding schemes, including single-layer coding, layered coding, and multiple description coding. Extensive tracedriven simulations show that substream trading has high ef-ciency, provides differentiated service, low start-up latency, synergies among peers with different Internet access rates, and protection against free-riders.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP'08
Pages94-103
Number of pages10
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP'08 - Orlando, FL, United States
Duration: Oct 19 2008Oct 22 2008

Publication series

NameProceedings - International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP
ISSN (Print)1092-1648

Other

Other16th IEEE International Conference on Network Protocols, ICNP'08
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityOrlando, FL
Period10/19/0810/22/08

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Software

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