Title: Bandwidth-aware Peer-to-Peer 3D streaming

Authors: Chien-Hao Chien, Shun-Yun Hu, Jehn-Ruey Jiang, Chuan-Wei Cheng

Addresses: Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, 32001, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, 32001, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, 32001, Taiwan. ' Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Central University, Taoyuan, 32001, Taiwan

Abstract: This paper proposes Bandwidth-Aware Peer Selection (BAPS), a peer selection strategy that improves the bandwidth utilisation for Peer-to-Peer (P2P) 3D streaming in a real-time Virtual Environment (VE). BAPS enhances Flowing Level-of-Details (FLoD), another P2P 3D streaming scheme, by avoiding request contention and peer overloading. We compare BAPS with FLoDs strategies that select from only peers within the Area of Interest (AOI) as data sources and do not consider peer bandwidth capacity. Our evaluation shows that BAPS achieves better performance in general, and maintains a stable minimal Quality of Service (QoS) for streaming, which is important for commercial applications.

Keywords: P2P streaming; peer-to-peer; VEs; virtual environments; 3D streaming; bandwidth-aware peer selection; bandwidth utilisation; quality of service; QoS.

DOI: 10.1504/IJAMC.2010.036834

International Journal of Advanced Media and Communication, 2010 Vol.4 No.4, pp.324 - 342

Published online: 11 Nov 2010 *

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