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A survey on peer-to-peer video streaming systems

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Video-over-IP applications have recently attracted a large number of users on the Internet. Traditional client-server based video streaming solutions incur expensive bandwidth provision cost on the server. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking is a new paradigm to build distributed network applications. Recently, several P2P streaming systems have been deployed to provide live and on-demand video streaming services on the Internet at low server cost. In this paper, we provide a survey on the existing P2P solutions for live and on-demand video streaming. Representative P2P streaming systems, including tree, multi-tree and mesh based systems are introduced. We describe the challenges and solutions of providing live and on-demand video streaming in P2P environment. Open research issues on P2P video streaming are also discussed.

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  1. ECE Department, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA

    Yong Liu & Chao Liang

  2. 2 Independence Way, Thomson Lab, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA

    Yang Guo

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Liu, Y., Guo, Y. & Liang, C. A survey on peer-to-peer video streaming systems. Peer-to-Peer Netw. Appl. 1, 18–28 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12083-007-0006-y

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