A Study on Multi-Path Streaming Media Based on P2P Overlay Networks

摘要

Adopting the P2P overlay technology, ALM (Application Layer Multicast) made a big success in the streaming media on the Internet. However, as focusing on the global performance and control, the individual efficiency is not guarantee. Furthermore, the on-demand resource could not ensure to attract enough users to improve the performance, which is related to the amount of referred users. Because of them, we started this research focusing on the single efficiency, targeting a reliable end-to-end streaming media service. Keeping the virtue of high scalability and reliability, we still consider the service based on the P2P overlay technology. And the basic idea of our research is utilizing the transmission ability of free peers in the overlay network, constructing the multiple transmitting paths from the sender to the receiver. Our multiple paths method is enabled by the overlay P2P network structure called a management network. Besides, the robustness and recovery cost is also considered in our evaluation.