Peer-to-Peer Streaming Technology Survey

Lately there has been a growing interest in the use of peer-to-peer technologies for deploying large-scale live media streaming systems over the Internet. In this paper we give a brief survey on the peer-to-peer streaming field and have also a closer look on selected applications. In practice, we analyse the selected peer-to-peer streaming systems (Octoshape, SopCast, TVAnts and TVU networks) and see if they are suitable for mobile usage. This paper also shows results from an experimental test carried out by using selected applications with a PC over different network connections (EDGE, UMTS, HSDPA, ADSL and LAN). None of the selected applications are designed to be used in a mobile environment, so there is still a lot of work to do to have optimized systems in the mobile network environment.