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The effect of incomplete sessions on peer-to-peer video on demand

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Video on demand systems are going to be important services of the future Internet. To achieve scalability and fault tolerance, these systems should rely on distributed video delivery schemes, using peer-to-peer (P2P) networks built among the clients. However, generic P2P data sharing protocols cannot guarantee timely arrival of the video segments. Therefore, they must be adapted to video streaming by restricting P2P delivery into a download window. In this paper we investigate the effect of the frequently occurring phenomenon of incomplete sessions on the efficiency of stored video streaming via P2P data distribution. Through theoretical considerations and a simulation study, we’ve found that with a P2P download window the number of superfluous downloads can be limited, while retaining the efficiency of the P2P distribution.

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  1. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

    Miklós Máté & Rolland Vida

  2. TrafficLab, Ericsson Research, Budapest, Hungary

    Attila Mihály

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This work is connected to the scientific program of the “Development of quality-oriented and cooperative R+D+I strategy and functional model at BME” project. This project is supported by the New Hungary Development Plan (Project ID: TÁMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KMR-2010-0002).

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Máté, M., Vida, R. & Mihály, A. The effect of incomplete sessions on peer-to-peer video on demand. Telecommun Syst 55, 525–535 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11235-013-9807-x

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