Clear P2P IPTV Live Streaming System for Set-Top Box Clients

Author

Zhu, Chenjie ; Ye, Dejian

Author_Institution

Fudan Univ., Shanghai

fYear

2007

fDate

16-19 Oct. 2007

Firstpage

539

Lastpage

544

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIT.2007.67

Filename

4385138