The Large-scale Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Live Streaming in the Internet

PhD Thesis Proposal Defence


Title: "The Large-scale Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Live Streaming in the Internet"

by

Mr. Susu XIE

Abstract:

A large number of emerging applications, including Internet TV, broadcast
of sports events, online games, and distance education, require support
for video broadcast, i.e., simultaneously video delivery to a large number
of receivers. The vision of enabling simultaneous video broadcast as a
common Internet utility in a manner that any publisher can broadcast
content to any set of receivers has been driving the research agenda in
the networking community for over two decades. In recent years, there has
been significant interest in the use of Peer-To-Peer technologies for
Internet live video streaming. There are two key factors behind this
development: first, such technology does not require support from the
Internet infrastructure, thus is extremely cost-effective and easy to
deploy; second, each participant is not only downloading the content, but
also uploading to other participants watching the same program.
Consequently, such an approach has the potential to scale as greater
demand also generates more resources.

This thesis, by leveraging our earlier development in the Coolstreaming
system, aims to study the fundamental designs in Peer-To-Peer live
streaming system and examine the implications on the system performance.
Specifically, we focus on three key issues: 1) what is the basis for a
random overlay formulation? 2) what is the fundamental limitation of such
a system, in particular related to the system dynamics? 3) how can the
resources better utilized?


Date:     		Friday, 11 April 2008

Time:                   11:00a.m.-1:00p.m.

Venue:                  Room 3301
			lifts 17-18

Committee Members:      Dr. Bo Li (Supervisor)
			Prof. Lionel Ni (Chairperson)
                        Dr. Qian Zhang
			Prof. Chin-Tau Lea (ECE)


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