Design and Implementation of a P2P-Based Media Streaming System

P2P together with media streaming technology brings a new method for video service. This paper proposes a design to deploy video service on commercial systems with authentication servers. The design combines C/S charging model, and provides video contents in a P2P way. According to the address information registered on authentication servers, a media management server helps new peers to find their partners, which effectively avoids the route lookup delay in a pure P2P overlay. In this paper, we focus on the video system¿s architecture design and its functional entities¿ module implementation. Finally, we give examples to show how the system works.