Online Video Using BitTorrent and HTML5 Applied to Wikipedia

Author

Bakker, Arno ; Petrocco, Riccardo ; Dale, Michael ; Gerber, Jan ; Grishchenko, Victor ; Rabaioli, Diego ; Pouwelse, Johan

Author_Institution

Dept. of Software Technol., Delft Univ. of Technol., Delft, Netherlands

fYear

2010

fDate

25-27 Aug. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Wikipedia started a project in order to enable users to add video and audio on their Wiki pages. The technical downside of this is that its bandwidth requirements will increase manifold. BitTorrent-based peer-to-peer technology from P2P-Next (a European research project) is explored to handle this bandwidth surge. We discuss the impact on the BitTorrent piece picker and outline our ´´tribe´´ protocol for seamless integration of P2P into the HTML5 video and audio elements. Ongoing work on libswift which uses UDP, an enhanced transport protocol and integrated NAT/Firewall puncturing, is also described.

Keywords

Web sites; peer-to-peer computing; transport protocols; video streaming; BitTorrent; BitTorrent piece picker; BitTorrent-based peer-to-peer technology; European research project; HTML5; HTML5 audio; HTML5 video; P2P-Next; UDP; Wiki pages; Wikipedia; bandwidth surge; integrated NAT/Firewall; libswift; online video; transport protocol; tribe protocol; Electronic publishing; Encyclopedias; Internet; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Streaming media;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P), 2010 IEEE Tenth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Delft

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7140-9

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7139-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/P2P.2010.5569984

Filename

5569984