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Architecture of a network-aware P2P-TV application: the NAPA-WINE approach

2011; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 49; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mcom.2011.5784001

1558-1896

Robert Birke, Emilio Leonardi, Marco Mellia, Árpád Bakay, Tivadar Szemethy, Csaba Király, Renato Lo Cigno, Fabien Mathieu, Luca Muscariello, Saverio Niccolini, Jan Seedorf, Giuseppe Tropea,

Multimedia Communication and Technology

Peer to Peer streaming (P2P-TV) applications have recently emerged as cheap and efficient solutions to provide real time streaming services over the Internet. For the sake of simplicity, typical P2P-TV systems are designed and optimized following a pure layered approach, thus ignoring the effect of design choices on the underlying transport network. This simple approach, however, may constitute a threat for the network providers, due to the congestion that P2P-TV traffic can potentially generate. In this article, we present and discuss the architecture of an innovative, network cooperative P2PTV application that is being designed and developed within the STREP Project NAPA WINE 1 Our application is explicitly targeted to favor cooperation between the application and the transport network layer.