Peer-to-Peer internet TV

Live multimedia streaming applications operate more efficiently when organized in a peer to peer (P2P) topology. The upload capacity of the peers is utilized to support other peers thereby alleviating the load from the streaming server. Many peer to peer models have been proposed for live multimedia streaming but they have drawbacks including low resource utilization and high startup and source to end delay. In this paper we develop a scalable live multimedia streaming model, FastNet with minimum delay bounds by utilizing the maximum available upload bandwidth of the peers.