Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Application Survey

Up to now, the Internet has been growing both in size and technologically. It is also not uncommon to find many types of media within a single web-page such as 3D animations, sound, video clips, online radio and TV services. Streaming is the technology which enables this, by viewing a media while downloading it. An important amount of research has been achieved to improve this bandwidth sensitive technology. Peer-To-Peer (P2P) network is at the moment one of the most effective solution to distribute streaming data within a large scale overlay, involving potentially thousands of nodes. This paper presents a survey on existing P2P media streaming systems. Our main goal is to study different P2P media streaming applications, state their results and present our analysis of each system.