On Piece Selection for Streaming BitTorrent
| Document type: | Conference Papers |
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| Peer reviewed: | Yes |
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| Author(s): | David Erman, Karel de Vogeleer, Adrian Popescu |
| Title: | On Piece Selection for Streaming BitTorrent |
| Conference name: | Fifth Swedish National Computer Networking Worshop (SNCNW2008) |
| Year: | 2008 |
| City: | Karlskrona |
| Organization: | Blekinge Institute of Technology |
| Department: | School of Engineering - Dept. of Telecommunication Systems (Sektionen för teknik – avd. för telekommunikationssystem) School of Engineering S- 372 25 Ronneby +46 455 38 50 00 http://www.tek.bth.se/ |
| Authors e-mail: | david.erman@bth.se, kdv@bth.se, adrian.popescu@bth.se |
| Language: | English |
| Abstract: | Video-on-Demand (VoD) has been hailed as a "killer app" of the Internet for a long time, but it has yet to really make a major breakthrough, due to various technical and political reasons. The recent influx of community-driven video distribution has reactualized the research into efficient distribution methods for streaming video. In this paper, we propose a number of modifications and extensions to the BitTorrent (BT) distribution and replication system to make it suitable for use in providing a streaming video delivery service, and implement parts of these in a simulator. Also, we report on a simulation study of the implemented extensions to the BT system. |
| Subject: | Computer Science\Networks and Communications Telecommunications\Modelling of Bursty Traffics |
| Keywords: | BitTorrent, streaming, piece selection, performance evaluation |
