Evaluating P2P live streaming systems: the CNG case

Shakeel Ahmad (1) , Eliya Buyukkaya (2) , Christos Bouras (3) , Raouf Hamzaoui (1) , Vagelis Kapoulas (3) , Andreas Papazois (3) , Erez Perelman (4) , Alex Shani (4) , Gwendal Simon (5, 2)

1 DMU - De Montfort University [Leicester, United Kingdom]
2 INFO - Département informatique
3 CTI - Research Academic Computer Technology Institute (Computer Technology Institute)
4 EXENT - Exent Technology (Exent)
5 REOP - Réseaux d'opérateurs

Many peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have been proposed for the provision of scalable live video streaming services over the Internet. While the literature contains surveys of the architectures of these systems, there is a lack of work on methodologies for their evaluation. We identify the main issues in the evaluation of P2P live streaming systems and use the Community Network Game (CNG) project as an ex- ample to illustrate them. The evaluation of the P2P sys- tem consists of two phases: a laboratory one using the ns-2 network simulator and an online field test with Massively Multiplayer Online Games (MMOG) player

Mots clés: Peer to peer networks; Video streaming

Domaines: Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Shakeel Ahmad, Eliya Buyukkaya, Christos Bouras, Raouf Hamzaoui, Vagelis Kapoulas, et al.. Evaluating P2P live streaming systems: the CNG case. 17th International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems (DMS), Aug 2011, Firenze, Italy. ⟨hal-02355305⟩