Title :
Clear P2P IPTV Live Streaming System for Set-Top Box Clients
Author :
Zhu, Chenjie ; Ye, Dejian
Author_Institution :
Fudan Univ., Shanghai
Abstract :
IPTV (Internet Protocol Television) live streaming systems with client-sever based content delivery infrastructures face scalability problems due to their high requirement at server hardware configuration and network bandwidth. This paper presents a P2P based live streaming system-"Clear Live", which tries to achieve better scalability than client-server based system. While current popular P2P IPTV systems support only PC client, our system supports both STB (Set-top Box) client and PC client. "Clear Live" is designed according to meet the requirements of STB client and IPTV services. Evaluation results demonstrate that "Clear Live" can provide high quality live streaming service to a vast number of clients with relatively low cost.
Keywords :
media streaming; peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication computing; television; transport protocols; Internet protocol television; P2P IPTV live streaming system; client-sever based content delivery infrastructure; network bandwidth; scalability problems; server hardware configuration; set-top box clients; Bandwidth; Computer networks; Costs; Hardware; IPTV; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Scalability; TV; US Department of Transportation;
Conference_Titel :
Computer and Information Technology, 2007. CIT 2007. 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Aizu-Wakamatsu, Fukushima
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-2983-7
DOI :
10.1109/CIT.2007.67
