Evaluation of swarm video streaming

IPTV has been hailed as a "killer app" of the Internet for a long time, but it has yet to really make a major breakthrough, due to various technical and political reasons. The recent influx of community-driven video distribution has re-actualized the research into efficient distribution me...

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Published inInternational Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems pp. 1172 - 1179
Main Authors Erman, D, Yong Yao, De Vogeleer, K, Popescu, A
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2010
Subjects
Bandwidth
Indexes
IPTV
Measurement
Media
media distribution
Servers
Smoothing methods
Streaming media
swarm
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Summary:IPTV has been hailed as a "killer app" of the Internet for a long time, but it has yet to really make a major breakthrough, due to various technical and political reasons. The recent influx of community-driven video distribution has re-actualized the research into efficient distribution methods for streaming video. In this paper, we suggest a number of modifications and extensions to the BitTorrent distribution and replication system to make it suitable for use in providing a streaming video delivery service, and implement parts of these in a simulator. Also, we report on a simulation study as well as a large-scale real-world study of the extensions on PlanetLab. Results show that BitTorrent can be used as a bandwidth-efficient alternative to traditional IPTV solutions.
ISBN:9781424472857
1424472857
ISSN:2157-0221
2157-023X
DOI:10.1109/ICUMT.2010.5676530