Towards a Universal Friendly P2P Media Streaming Application: An Evaluation Framework

摘要

Network-oblivious P2P applications have produced high cross-ISP traffics and led to serious disruption to ISP economics. While end users are concerned with quality, Internet Content Provider (ICP) cares more about service scale and ISP focuses on operating cost. Thus this paper provides a framework of evaluating the P2P streaming application performance from perspectives of all entities involved, i.e ISP, ICP and end users. Based on the analytical study, we propose potential solutions to define unprecedented friendly and cost-effective P2P streaming application to achieve the ideal philosophy of "More Users =Better performance + Lower cost".