Scalable Island Multicast for Peer-to-Peer Streaming

Jin, Xing; Cheng, Kan-Leung; Chan, S.-H. Gary

doi:10.1155/2007/78913

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“…These are termed as tree-based and mesh-based overlays. P2P tree-based streaming is conceptually similar to Application Level Multicast (ALM) [2], in which the participating peers hold the incoming stream in their buffers and the buffered stream is then served to their child peers. In P2P mesh-based streaming systems, there is no fixed hierarchy among the peers, and each peer can connect to multiple peers and can share the data with them.…”

Section: P2p-vod Streamingmentioning

confidence: 99%

P2P-VoD Streaming:

Ghosh

Rajan

Pandey

2014

Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics- Volume 2

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Abstract. Peer-to-Peer based Video-on-Demand (P2P-VoD) applications are becoming very popular for scalable video distribution in both academic and commercial environments. Asynchronous arrival of peers who wish to watch videos from beginning, as well as willing to avail interactive services like jump, rewind, fast-forward etc. in these systems makes it challenging to design and deploy them. A lot of research has already been done on the architectural design issues of P2P-VoD systems. In this paper, we present a survey on approaches which address some existing design issues like alleviating the server stress due to asynchrony, building efficient P2P-VoD applications with interactive services and handling peer churn as well as the time-varying nature of network. In addition to these issues, we also discuss the challenges in deployment of P2P-based VoD systems with additional user experience features like on-demand watching of segmented scenes, on-the-fly creation of playlists etc. over best-effort Internet.

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Section: P2p-vod Streamingmentioning

confidence: 99%

P2P-VoD Streaming:

Ghosh

Rajan

Pandey

2014

Advanced Computing, Networking and Informatics- Volume 2

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“…Most recently, we have proposed another protocol called scalable island multicast (SIM) [13], [14]. As a distributed protocol, SIM shares many features with DIM.…”

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“…1) Packet Loss Recovery: SIM has adopted a modified lateral error recovery scheme for loss recovery [14]. We can use similar idea in our CIM and DIM protocols.…”

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Island Multicast: Combining IP Multicast With Overlay Data Distribution

Jin

Cheng

Chan

2009

IEEE Trans. Multimedia

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Abstract-Traditional overlay protocols use unicast connections to form delivery trees. While it can achieve global multicast across the Internet, it is not as efficient as IP multicast. In this paper, we integrate IP multicast into overlay data distribution to improve delivery efficiency. We investigate island multicast where unicast connections are used to connect multicast domains and IP multicast is used within multicast domains. We first explore a centralized island multicast protocol (termed CIM), which relies on a central server to construct a delivery tree. We then study a distributed protocol (termed DIM), where hosts can distributedly join islands and form a delivery tree. We study the key issues in both protocols. We also discuss how to apply these protocols to media streaming applications.We have evaluated both protocols on Internet-like topologies. We have also implemented a prototype for CIM and tested it on PlanetLab. The results show that our approaches can significantly improve network performance as compared to pure overlay protocols. Our study shows that it is important to consider local multicast capability when designing overlay protocols. Index Terms-Application-level multicast, IP multicast, island multicast, overlay data distribution, overlay multicast.

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“…A number of architectural choices were proposed to improve the system performance and scalability, including the use of proxies or helper nodes [2], packing multiple trees [3], IP-multicast integration [4], etc. Other design decisions, ranging from the segment size, and the scheduling policy, to parallel TCP connections, also have a great impact on the performance and reliability.…”

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Global 1-Mbps Peer-Assisted Streaming: Fine-Grain Measurement of a Configurable Platform

Jiang

Chan

Chiang

et al. 2012

IEEE Trans. Multimedia

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Abstract-High-resolution video is defining a new age of peer-assisted video streaming over the public Internet. Streaming over 1-Mbps videos in a scalable and global manner presents a challenging milestone. In this work, we examine the feasibility of 1-Mbps streaming through a global measurement study. In contrast to previous measurement studies that crawl commercial applications, we conduct fine-grain, controlled experiments on a configurable platform. We developed and deployed FastMesh-SIM, a novel peer-assisted streaming system that leverages proxies, scalable streaming trees and IP multicast to achieve 1-Mbps streaming at a global scale.With the configurability-enabled design, we are allowed to conduct controlled experiments by varying design decisions under a wide range of operating conditions, and measuring in-depth, finegrain metrics at a per-hop, per-segment level. We collected hundreds of hours of streaming traces that broadcast live TV channels to more than 120 peers and 30 proxies, with a global geographic footprint over 8 different countries. Data analysis demonstrates how a set of design decisions collectively overcome the 1-Mbps barrier. The various operational issues we uncovered provide insights to service providers that want to deploy a commercial system at a larger scale and a higher streaming rate. By comparing theory and practice, we also confirm theory-inspired architectural decisions, and show that our system indeed achieves throughputs close to theoretical upper-bound calculated under many ideal assumptions.

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Scalable Island Multicast for Peer-to-Peer Streaming

Cited by 9 publications

References 15 publications

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