On Scalability of Proximity-Aware Peer-to-Peer Streaming

—P2P (peer-to-peer) technology has proved itself an efficient and cost-effective solution to support large-scale multimedia streaming. Different from traditional P2P applications, the quality of P2P streaming is strictly determined by performance metrics such as streaming delay. To meet these requirements, previous studies resorted to intuitions and heuristics to construct peer selection solutions incorporating topology and proximity concerns. However, the impact of proximity-aware methodology and delay tolerance of peers on the scalability of P2P system remains an unanswered question. In this paper, we study this problem via an analytical approach. To address the challenge of incorporating Internet topology into P2P streaming analysis, we construct a H-sphere network model which maps the network topology from the space of discrete graph to the continuous geometric domain, meanwhile capturing the the power-law property of Internet. Based on this model, we analyze a series of peer se...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: INFOCOM
• Authors: Liang Dai, Yi Cui, Yuan Xue
• Keywords: Communications, INFOCOM 2007, P2P Streaming Analysis, Peer Selection, Traditional P2p Applications