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Abstract | ||
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In recent years, classical Internet applications have been accompanied by the surging of a great variety of new services and exciting possibilities. Among such broad range, two particular phenomena are highly successful: Online Social Networks (OSNs) and Peer-to-Peer (P2P) services. This paper merges these distinct worlds, via the proposal of a P2P streaming system that takes advantage of the friendship relationships of an underlying OSN, to better distribute videos among the overlay peers that are also friends within the OSN. A category of privileged users is therefore created, that is guaranteed a satisfying viewing experience when the P2P overlay operates in critical conditions, i.e, when bandwidth availability is scarce. We show that the help of direct friends, two-hops away friends and, in the limit, of the entire OSN community brings in considerable advantages to the peers that are OSN members. In particular: the number of those among them that are able to download the entire video significantly increases; the number of video portions they can obtain consistently raises; as desired, when the P2P system is operating in underloaded conditions, a proper functioning is guaranteed to all of its nodes, regardless of their being members of the OSN or plain P2P users. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2011 | 10.1109/GLOCOM.2011.6133736 | IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Globecom) |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
data models,internet,satisfiability,overlay networks,servers,data model,social network,p2p | Data modeling,World Wide Web,Internet privacy,Social network,Friendship,Computer science,Server,Computer network,Download,Overlay,Overlay network,The Internet | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1930-529X | 3 | 0.41 |
References | Authors | |
7 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
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| Maria Luisa Merani | 1 | 72 | 14.89 |
| Daniela Saladino | 2 | 17 | 1.51 |
| Marco Capetta | 3 | 3 | 0.41 |