A P2P streaming service architecture with distributed caching

作     者：GUO Pan-hong YANG Yang LI Xin-you 

作者机构：Department of Computer Science and Technology University of Science and Technology Beijing Beijing 100083 China China State Information Center Beijing 100045 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Zhejiang University-Science A(Applied Physics & Engineering)》 (浙江大学学报（英文版）A辑（应用物理与工程）)

年 卷 期：2007年第8卷第4期

页      面：605-614页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 081201[工学-计算机系统结构] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Project (Nos. 90412012 and 60673160) supported by the NationalNatural Science Foundation of China 

主　　题：Cooperative steaming Peer-to-peer networks Partial caching scheme Distributed caching 

摘      要：Multimedia streaming served through peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is booming nowadays. However, the end-to-end streaming quality is generally unstable due to the variability of the state of serve-peers. On the other hand, proxy caching is a bandwidth-efficient scheme for streaming over the Internet, whereas it is a substantially expensive method needing dedicated powerful proxy servers. In this paper, we present a P2P cooperative streaming architecture combined with the advantages of both P2P networks and multimedia proxy caching techniques to improve the streaming quality of participating clients. In this frame- work, a client will simultaneously retrieve contents from the server and other peers that have viewed and cached the same title before. In the meantime, the client will also selectively cache the aggregated video content so as to serve still future clients. The associate protocol to facilitate the multi-path streaming and a distributed utility-based partial caching scheme are detailedly dis- cussed. We demonstrate the effectiveness of this proposed architecture through extensive simulation experiments on large, Inter- net-like topologies.