Mykoniati, E and Landa, R and Spirou, S and Clegg, RG and Latif, L and Griffin, D and Rio, M (2008) Scalable Peer-to-Peer Streaming for Live Entertainment Content. IEEE COMMUN MAG , 46 (12) 40 - 46.
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Abstract
We present a system for streaming live entertainment content over the Internet originating from a single source to a scalable number of consumers without resorting to centralized or provider-provisioned resources. The system creates a peer-to-peer overlay network, which attempts to optimize use of existing capacity to ensure quality of service, delivering low startup delay and lag in playout of the live content. There are three main aspects of our solution: first, a swarming mechanism that constructs an overlay topology for minimizing propagation delays from the source to end consumers; second, a distributed overlay anycast system that uses a location-based search algorithm for peers to quickly find the closest peers in a given stream; and finally, a novel incentive mechanism that encourages peers to donate capacity even when the user is not actively consuming content.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Scalable Peer-to-Peer Streaming for Live Entertainment Content |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| UCL classification: | UCL > School of BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Electronic and Electrical Engineering |
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