PRIME: Peer-to-Peer Receiver-drIven MEsh-Based Streaming

Abstract—The success of swarming content delivery has motivated a new approach to live Peer-to-Peer (P2P) streaming that we call mesh-based streaming. In this approach, participating peers form a random mesh and incorporate swarming content delivery to stream live content. Despite the growing popularity of this approach, neither the design tradeoffs nor the basic performance bottlenecks in mesh-based P2P streaming are well understood. This paper presents PRIME, the first mesh-based P2P streaming for live content that effectively incorporates swarming content delivery. We identify two performance bottlenecks in a meshbased P2P streaming, namely bandwidth bottleneck and content bottleneck. We derive proper peer connectivity to minimize bandwidth bottleneck as well as an efficient pattern of delivery for live content over a random mesh to minimize content bottleneck. We show that the pattern of delivery can be divided into diffusion and swarming phases and then identify proper packet ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Nazanin Magharei, Reza Rejaie
• Keywords: Communications, Incorporate Swarming Content, INFOCOM 2007, Live Content, Swarming Content Delivery