BASS: BitTorrent Assisted Streaming System for Video-on-Demand

Author

Dana, Chris ; Li, Danjue ; Harrison, David ; Chuah, Chen-Nee

Author_Institution

California Univ., Davis, CA

fYear

2005

fDate

Oct. 30 2005-Nov. 2 2005

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper introduces a hybrid server/P2P streaming system called bittorrent-assisted streaming system (BASS) for large-scale video-on-demand (VoD) services. By distributing the load among P2P connections as well as maintaining active server connections, BASS can increase the system scalability while decreasing media playout wait times. To analyze the benefits of BASS, we examine torrent trace data collected in the first week of distribution for Fedora Core 3 and develop an empirical model of bittorrent client performance. Based on this, we run trace-based simulations to evaluate BASS and show that it is more scalable than current unicast solutions and can greatly decrease the average waiting time before playback

Keywords

client-server systems; large-scale systems; multimedia servers; peer-to-peer computing; video on demand; video servers; video streaming; BASS; Fedora Core 3; P2P streaming system; VoD; bittorrent client performance; bittorrent-assisted streaming system; empirical model; hybrid server; large-scale video-on-demand service; system scalability; trace-based simulation; Analytical models; Large-scale systems; Multimedia systems; Network servers; Peer to peer computing; Performance analysis; Scalability; Streaming media; System performance; Unicast;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia Signal Processing, 2005 IEEE 7th Workshop on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9288-4

Electronic_ISBN

0-7803-9289-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MMSP.2005.248586

Filename

4014007