A measurement study of the potential benefits for peer-assisted mobile VoD

Author

Jiqiang Wu ; Liang Chen ; Dah Ming Chiu ; Youwei Hua ; Zirong Zhu

Author_Institution

Dept. of Inf. Eng., Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

fYear

2014

fDate

4-8 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

642

Lastpage

647

Abstract

Rapid growth in users of smartphones and other mobile devices is increasing the demand for online video service to these mobile devices. The mobile video on demand (VoD) service is almost exclusively provided by content delivery network (CDN) servers since mobile devices are not powerful enough to provide any peer-to-peer (P2P) service. However, in a mixed VoD system with both non-mobile and mobile peers, an interesting question is to ask whether we can leverage non-mobile peers to provide better support for VoD. In this paper, we try to answer this question by a measurement study on Tencent´s existing VoD systems. Our measurement results show various interesting characteristics and potential benefits of leveraging non-mobile users. Such results will guide us towards a practical system design and implementation in the near future.

Keywords

peer-to-peer computing; smart phones; video on demand; content delivery network server; mobile device; mobile video-on-demand service; nonmobile peer; online video service; peer assisted mobile VoD; peer-to-peer service; smart phones; Mobile communication; Peer-to-peer computing; Watches; Mobile VoD service; measurement; peer-to-peer;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2014 International

Conference_Location

Nicosia

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-7324-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IWCMC.2014.6906431

Filename

6906431