Network Awareness of P2P Live Streaming Applications: A Measurement Study

Abstract--Early P2P-TV systems have already attracted millions of users, and many new commercial solutions are entering this market. Little information is however available about how these systems work, due to their closed and proprietary design. In this paper, we present large scale experiments to compare three of the most successful P2P-TV systems, namely PPLive, SopCast and TVAnts. Our goal is to assess what level of "network awareness" has been embedded in the applications. We first define a general framework to quantify which network layer parameters leverage application choices, i.e., what parameters mainly drive the peer selection and data exchange. We then apply the methodology to a large dataset, collected during a number of experiments where we deployed about 40 peers in several European countries. From analysis of the dataset, we observe that TVAnts and PPLive exhibit a mild preference to exchange data among peers in the same autonomous system the peer belongs to, ...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: TMM
• Authors: Delia Ciullo, M.-A. Garcia da Rocha Neta, Ákos Horváth, Emilio Leonardi, Marco Mellia, Dario Rossi, Miklós Telek, Paolo Veglia
• Keywords: Management, Network Layer Parameters, P2P-TV Systems, Successful P2p-tv Systems, TMM 2010