Design and implementation of Embedded P2P streaming media system

At present, IPTV set-top box applications basically use the traditional client/server structure, and this structure can no longer meet the need. In order to improve this traditional structure, this paper introduce a peer-to-peer IPTV streaming media system which is named Banacast. Compared to other peer-to-peer streaming media systems which are only designed for PC, Banacast mainly run on set-top box terminal. Considering the weakness of set-top box based on embedded operating system, Banacast must be specific design. This paper mainly describes the design and implementation of Banacast in such aspects as control flow, framework and major algorithms.