Title
On Characterizing PPStream: Measurement and Analysis of P2P IPTV under Large-Scale Broadcasting
Abstract
Despite the recent and remarkable popularity of P2P IPTV systems, the study of their characteristics on largescale broadcasting is rare. In this paper, we have undertaken a measurement study on one of the most popular P2P IPTV systems, PPStream, during the 29th Olympics broadcasting. We deployed our dedicated measurement tool, PPS-Sniffer, under different network environments, and collected extensive data during a large number of events. We evaluate the playback delay, and the peering strategies towards local cluster. We also investigate the data scheduling, and its impact on the playback quality and the control overhead. To the best of our knowledge, results obtained in our study are unique and new as compared with existing work. Specifically, our study demonstrates that: (1) The playback delay is notable in Olympic channels, even for close peers. (2) Peering strategies of PPStream target mainly on the ISP level, and should exploit peers of local clusters to reduce the playback lag among close peers. (3) We unveil an overhead-quality tradeoff that sheds light on the design of future systems that can achieve a good balance. Our study aids the understanding of significant performance and design issues of PPStream, and is also useful for optimizing, modeling and the future design of P2P IPTV systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1109/GLOCOM.2009.5425399
GLOBECOM
Keywords
Field
DocType
p2p iptv,playback delay,olympic channels,close peer,p2p iptv system,large-scale broadcasting,iptv,ppstream target,broadcasting,ppstream peering strategy,data scheduling,measurement study,media streaming,future design,local cluster,playback quality,peer-to-peer computing,design issue,playback lag,olympics broadcasting,isp level,measurement,p2p,protocols
Broadcasting,Computer science,Popularity,Computer network,Communication channel,Exploit,IPTV,Data scheduling,Lag,Peering
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1930-529X
978-1-4244-4148-8
8
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.60
8
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Wei Liang111118.32
Jingping Bi27018.36
Rong Wu380.60
Zhenyu Li433835.89
Chen Li5173.89