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

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-andconquer 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 packetlevel 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 suppo...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: P2P
• Authors: Miao Wang, Lisong Xu, Byrav Ramamurthy
• Keywords: Live Streaming Systems, Multi-view P2p, P2P 2009, Peer-to-Peer Computing, Various Streaming Protocols