A Flexible Divide-And-Conquer Protocol for Multi-View Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming

Authors

Miao Wang, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Byrav Ramamurthy, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

2009

Comments

Published in P2P '09. IEEE Ninth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing, 2009. Copyright 2009 IEEE. Used by permission.

Abstract

Multi-view peer-to-peer (P2P) live streaming systems have recently emerged, where a user can simultaneously watch multiple channels. Previous work on multi-view P2P streaming solves the fundamental inter-channel bandwidth competition problem at the individual peer level, and thus can be used with very limited types of streaming protocols. In this paper, we propose a new protocol for multi-view P2P streaming, called Divide-and-Conquer (DAC), which efficiently solves the inter-channel bandwidth competition problem using a divide-and-conquer strategy at the channel level, and thus is flexible to work with various streaming protocols. This makes DAC more suitable for upgrading current single-view P2P live streaming systems to multi-view P2P live streaming systems. Our extensive packet level simulations show that DAC is efficient in allocating the overall system bandwidth among competing channels, is flexible in working with various streaming protocols, and is scalable in supporting a large number of users and channels.