Architecture of a network-aware P2P-TV application: the NAPA-WINE approach

Author

Birke, Robert ; Leonardi, Emilio ; Mellia, Marco ; Bakay, Arpad ; Szemethy, Tivadar ; Kiraly, Csaba ; Cigno, Renato Lo ; Mathieu, Fabien ; Muscariello, Luca ; Niccolini, Saverio ; Seedorf, Jan ; Tropea, Giuseppe

Volume

49

Issue

6

fYear

2011

fDate

6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

154

Lastpage

163

Abstract

Peer to Peer streaming (P2P-TV) applications have recently emerged as cheap and efficient solutions to provide real time streaming services over the Internet. For the sake of simplicity, typical P2P-TV systems are designed and optimized following a pure layered approach, thus ignoring the effect of design choices on the underlying transport network. This simple approach, however, may constitute a threat for the network providers, due to the congestion that P2P-TV traffic can potentially generate. In this article, we present and discuss the architecture of an innovative, network cooperative P2PTV application that is being designed and developed within the STREP Project NAPA WINE¹ Our application is explicitly targeted to favor cooperation between the application and the transport network layer.

Keywords

IP networks; IPTV; Internet; peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication traffic; video streaming; Internet; P2P-TV traffic; STREP project NAPA-WINE; congestion; network aware P2P-TV application architecture; network providers; peer to peer streaming applications; pure layered approach; real time streaming services; Bandwidth; Loss measurement; Network architecture; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Streaming media; Time measurement;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Communications Magazine, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0163-6804

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCOM.2011.5784001

Filename

5784001