Title: P2P network system for private live-streaming distribution

Authors: Takayuki Hisada, Yusuke Hirota, Hideki Tode, Koso Murakami

Addresses: Department of Information Networking, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ' Department of Information Networking, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan. ' Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuencho, Naka, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan. ' Department of Information Networking, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, 1-5 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan

Abstract: This paper proposes P2P live-streaming system suitable for private distribution. This system constructs distribution network considering transmission bandwidth of each node. In particular, the system carefully selects a certain number of broadband nodes and set them around the distributor|s node in P2P network. A set of the selected broadband nodes plays a role of virtual distributor with large amount of transmission bandwidth and provides contents to peers instead of origin. The original contribution of our proposed system includes double mesh P2P network structure for scalable and efficient private live-streaming services, and its detailed design description. In this system, network bandwidth is used effectively. As a result, the private distribution can be provided with higher scalability. With extended simulation experiments, we confirmed that the proposed system presents about half load of distributor compared with the existing system.

Keywords: live streaming; P2P networks; peer-to-peer; content distribution; private distribution; coolstreaming; leave; churn resilience; multimedia; network bandwidth; simulation.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIS.2011.040928

International Journal of Multimedia Intelligence and Security, 2011 Vol.2 No.1, pp.36 - 53

Published online: 28 Feb 2015 *

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