Supporting Heterogeneity and Congestion Control in Peer-to-Peer Multicast Streaming

Abstract— We consider the problem of supporting bandwidth heterogeneity and congestion control in the context of P2P multicast streaming. We identify several challenges peculiar to the P2P setting including robustness concerns arising from peer unreliability and the ambiguity of packet loss as an indicator of congestion. We propose a hybrid parent- and child-driven bandwidth adaptation protocol that is designed in conjunction with a framework for robustness and that exploits application-level knowledge.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: IPTPS
• Authors: Venkata N. Padmanabhan, Helen J. Wang, Philip A. Chou
• Keywords: Bandwidth Heterogeneity, Congestion Control, IPTPS 2004, Robustness Concerns