CoolStreaming/DONet: a data-driven overlay network for peer-to-peer live media streaming

— This paper presents DONet, a Data-driven Overlay Network for live media streaming. The core operations in DONet are very simple: every node periodically exchanges data availability information with a set of partners, and retrieves unavailable data from one or more partners, or supplies available data to partners. We emphasize three salient features of this data-driven design: 1) easy to implement, as it does not have to construct and maintain a complex global structure; 2) efficient, as data forwarding is dynamically determined according to data availability while not restricted by specific directions; and 3) robust and resilient, as the partnerships enable adaptive and quick switching among multi-suppliers. We show through analysis that DONet is scalable with bounded delay. We also address a set of practical challenges for realizing DONet, and propose an efficient member- and partnership management algorithm, together with an intelligent scheduling algorithm that achieves real-...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Xinyan Zhang, Jiangchuan Liu, Bo Li, Tak-Shing Peter Yum
• Keywords: Communications, Data Availability, Data Availability Information, Data-driven Overlay Network, INFOCOM 2005