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, arranging peers in a P2P network comprising a streaming source and a plurality of network peers arranged at distribution levels in the P2P network. The method comprises receiving a request from a peer entering the network to receive data content, and determining a distribution level at which the entering peer is to be arranged with respect to the streaming source. Further, the method comprises providing the entering peer with a plurality of peers selected from the network peers from which the requested data content can be downloaded with an expected probability depending on the determined distribution level and further indicating upload capacity of each of the plurality of peers, wherein the entering peer is enabled to download, with the expected probability, the requested data content from a selected one of said plurality of peers having a highest upload capacity among the plurality of selected peers. The present invention further relates to a method of requesting data content in a P2P network and a peer device.