HIGHEST BANDWIDTH DOWNLOAD REQUEST POLICY IN A LIVE STREAMING P2P NETWORK

摘要

The present invention relates to a method of, and a device for, arrangingpeers in a P2P network comprising astreaming source and a plurality of network peers arranged at distributionlevels in the P2P network. The method comprises receiving arequest from a peer entering the network to receive data content, anddetermining a distribution level at which the entering peer is tobe arranged with respect to the streaming source. Further, the methodcomprises providing the entering peer with a plurality of peersselected from the network peers from which the requested data content can bedownloaded with an expected probability dependingon the determined distribution level and further indicating upload capacity ofeach of the plurality of peers, wherein the entering peeris enabled to download, with the expected probability, the requested datacontent from a selected one of said plurality of peershaving a highest upload capacity among the plurality of selected peers. Thepresent invention further relates to a method of requestingdata content in a P2P network and a peer device.