Understanding the power of pull-based streaming protocol: Can we do better?

IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1678-1693

  Zhang, Meng ^a,b   Zhang, Qian ^a,c   Sun, Lifeng ^a,b   Yang, Shiqiang ^a,b  

^a IEEE

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Capacity utilization; Delay; p2p streaming; Pull based; Pull push hybrid; Throughput

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY UTILIZATION; PULL PUSH HYBRID; STREAMING PROTOCOLS;

BANDWIDTH; DATA TRANSFER; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PACKET NETWORKS; SCHEDULING; TREES (MATHEMATICS);

NETWORK PROTOCOLS;

EID: 36749039325     PISSN: 07338716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSAC.2007.071207     Document Type: Article

References (34)

1. "Pplive," 2007. [Online]. Available: http://www.pplive.com/
2. "Zattoo," 2007. [Online]. Available: http://zattoo.com/
3. "Gridmedia: http://www.gridmedia.com.cn/," 2006.
4. X. Zhang, J. Liu, B. Li, and T.-S. P. Yum, "Coolstreaming/donet: A data-driven overlay network for efficent media streaming," in IEEE INFOCOM 2005, Miami, US, Mar. 2005.
5. V. Venkataraman and P. Francis., "Chunkyspread: Multi-tree unstructured end system multicast," in IEEE ICNP 2006, San Babara, CA, USA, 2006.
6. N. Garg, R. Khandekar, K. Kunal, and V. Pandit, "Bandwidth maximization in multicasting," in Annual European Symposium on Algorithms, Budapest, Hungary.
7. Y. Cui, B. Li, and K. Nahrstedt, "On achieving optimized capacity utilization in application overlahy networks with multiple competing sessions," in ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures 2004, Barcelona, Spain, June 2004.
8. J. Li, P. A. Chou, and C. Zhang, "Mutualcast: An efficient mechanism for one-to-many content distribution," in ACM SIGCOMM Asia Workshop 2004, Beijing, China, 2004.
9. T. Small, B. Li, and B. Liang, "Outreach: Peer-to-peer topology construction towards minimized server bandwidth costs," IEEE JSAC Special Issue on Peer-to-Peer Communications and Applications, Jan. 2007.
10. Z. Li, B. Li, D. Jiang, and L. C. Lau, "On achieving optimal throughput with network coding," in IEEE INFOCOM 2005, 2005.
11. Y. Chu, S. Rao, and H. Zhang, "A case for end system multicast," in ACM Sigmetrics 2000, Santa Clara, California, USA, June 2000.
12. B. Cohen, "Bittorrent: http://bitconjuer.com."
13. V. Pai, K. Kumar, K. Tamilmani, V. Sambamurthy, and A. E. Mohr, "Chainsaw: Eliminating trees from, overlay multicast," in IPTPS 2005, Conell, US, Feb. 2005.
14. N. Magharei and R. Rejaie, "Prime: Peer-to-peer receiver-driven mesh-based streaming," in IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007.
15. S. Annapureddy, S. Guha, and et al, "Exploring vod in p2p swarming systems," in IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007.
16. "Qqlive," 2006. [Online], Available: http://tv.qq.com/
17. R. Kumar, Y. Liu, and K. Ross, "Stochastic fluid theory for p2p streaming systems," in IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007.
18. A. R. Bharambe, C. Herley, and V. N. Padmanabhan, "Analyzing and improving a bittorrent networks performance mechanisms," in IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2006.
19. A. Legout, G. UrvoyKeller, and P. Michiardi, "Rarest first and choke algorithms are enough," in Internet Measurement Conference 2006, Brazil, 2006.
20. D. Qiu and R. Srikant, "Modeling and performance analysis of bittorrent-like peer-to-peer networks," in ACM SIGCOMM 2004, Portland, OR, USA, Aug. 2004.
21. L. Massoulie, A. Twigg, C. Gkantsidis, and P. Rodriguez, "Randomized decentralized broadcasting algorithms," in IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007.
22. N. Magharei, R. Rejaie, and Y. Guo, "Mesh or multiple-tree: A comparative study of p2p live streaming services," in IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007.
23. M. Castro, P. Druschel, A.-M. Kermarrec, A. Nandi, A. I. T. Rowstron, and A. Singhr, "Splitstream: high-bandwidth multicast in cooperative environments," in Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP) 2003, New York, USA, Oct. 2003.
24. Y.-W. Sung, M. Bishop, and S. Rao, "Enabling contribution awareness in an overlay broadcasting system," in ACM SIGCOMM 2006, Pisa, Italy, 2006.
25. V. Agarwal and R. Rejaie, "Adaptive multi-source streaming in heterogeneous peer-to-peer networks," in Multimedia Computing and Networking 2005 (MMCN), San Jose, CA, USA, Jan. 2005.
26. "Meridian node to node latency matrix (2500×2500)," 2005, meridian project. [Online]. Available: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/People/egs/ meridian/data.php
27. Y. Chu, A. Ganjam, T. S. E. Ng, S. G. Rao, K. Sripanidkulchai, J. Zhan, and H. Zhang, "Early experience with an internet broadcast system based on overlay multicast," in USENIX 2004, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007.
28. M. Zhang, L. Zhao, Y. Tang, J. Luo, and S. Yang, "Large-scale live media streaming over peer-to-peer networks through global internet," in ACM workshop on Advances in peer-to-peer multimedia streaming (P2PMMS), Singapore, Nov. 2005, pp. 21-28.
29. "Planetlab," 2007. [Online], Available: http://www.planet-lab. org/
30. "Darwin streaming server," 2007. [Online], Available: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/streaming/
31. J. Jiang and K. Nahrstedt, "Randpeer: Membership management for qos sensitive peer-to-peer applications," in IEEE INFOCOM 2006, Barcelona, Spain, Apr. 2006.
32. G. Shen, Y. Wang, Y. Xiong, B. Y. Zhao, and Z.-L. Zhang, "Hptp: Relieving the tension between isps and p2p," in IPTPS 2007, Bellevue, Washington, USA, Feb. 2007.
33. C. Wu and B. Li, "Echelon: Peer-to-peer network diagnosis with network coding," in IEEE IWQoS 2006, New Haven, CT, USA, 2006.
34. M. Wang and B. Li, "Lava: A reality check of network coding in peer-to-peer live streaming," in IEEE INFOCOM 2007, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2007.