Analysis of block-aware peer adaptations in substream-based P2P

Chamil Kulatunga, Dmitri Botvich, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, William Donnelly

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    Abstract

    Peer-to-Peer (P2P) video delivery using substreams supports uplink heterogeneities of the peers and hence could optimise sharing capabilities with minimum free-riding peers. Therefore, substream-based applications such as PPLive and CoolStreaming have been well accepted after successful deployments in the public Internet. In this approach, a child peer can find a parent peer for a substream independent of the other parent peers that it receives the remaining substreams. In general, there can be more than one substream between a parent and a child. The block-aware adaptation algorithm in CoolStreaming changes the parent peer for all such substreams when a child peer experiences poor performance even on one of its substreams from the parent. However, lagging of one substream in such a scenario is likely while others are not affected, when the parent receives its substreams through multiple paths. We propose a fine-grained approach (changing substream by substream) in peer adaptations to improve overlay network performance. This approach will in turn, is designed also to minimise the diversity of parents at a child peer by attempting to join with a well-performing another parent, which is expected to curtail complexities in a network-assisted P2P framework.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationBroadband Communications, Networks, and Systems - 7th International ICST Conference, BROADNETS 2010, Revised Selected Papers
    Pages14-27
    Number of pages14
    Volume66 LNICST
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2012
    Publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
    Event7th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, BROADNETS 2010 - Athens, Greece
    Duration: 25 Oct 201027 Oct 2010

    Publication series

    NameLecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering
    Volume66 LNICST
    ISSN (Print)18678211

    Conference

    Conference7th International ICST Conference on Broadband Communications, Networks, and Systems, BROADNETS 2010
    Country/TerritoryGreece
    CityAthens
    Period25/10/1027/10/10

    Keywords

    • child-initiated block-aware peer adaptation
    • substream-based P2P
    • Video streaming

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Computer Networks and Communications

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