Video transmission scheduling for Peer-to-Peer live streaming systems

Ying Li, Zhu Li, Mung Chiang, A. Robert Calderbank

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Abstract

For Internet based video broadcasting applications such as IPTV, the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) streaming scheme has been found to be an effective solution. An important issue in live broadcasting is to avoid playback buffer underflow. How to utilize the playback buffer and upload bandwidth of peers to minimize the freeze-ups in playback, is the problem we try to solve. In this work, we propose a successive water-filling (SWaF) algorithm for the video transmission scheduling in P2P live streaming system, to minimize the playback freeze-ups among peers. SWaF algorithm only needs each peer to optimally transmit (within its uploading bandwidth) part of its available video segments in the buffer to other peers requiring the content and pass small amount message to some other peers. Moreover, SWaF has low complexity and provable optimality. Numerical results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2008 - Proceedings
Pages653-656
Number of pages4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008
Event2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2008 - Hannover, Germany
Duration: Jun 23 2008Jun 26 2008

Publication series

Name2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2008 - Proceedings

Other

Other2008 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, ICME 2008
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityHannover
Period6/23/086/26/08

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

Keywords

  • Peer-to-Peer
  • Scheduling
  • Water-filling

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