Analysing Joost peer to peer IPTV protocol

Author

Nafaa, Mehdi ; Agoulmine, Nazim

Author_Institution

Network & Multimedia Res. Group, Univ. of Evry Val d´´Essonne, Evry, France

fYear

2009

fDate

1-5 June 2009

Firstpage

291

Lastpage

294

Abstract

After Kazaa and Skype, Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis released Joost: a peer to peer TV client. Joost claims that it can work seamlessly and has better video quality than existing p2p video streaming applications and even approaching number of traditional TV broadcasted channels. In this paper, we present an experimental analysis of the Joost p2p television protocol. After months of packet monitoring, we have gathered valuable data traffic that is analysed. We show the results of Joost insights and describe its key components and networking model. Our objective is to analyse its management protocol, considering it like a closed-box, without any a-priori, knowledge on its internal implementation. We focused also on the peer life in the Joost network.

Keywords

IP networks; IPTV; peer-to-peer computing; telecommunication traffic; transport protocols; video streaming; Joost network; Joost p2p television protocol; Joost peer to peer IPTV protocol; data traffic; management protocol; networking model; p2p video streaming; packet monitoring; peer life; video quality; Bandwidth; IPTV; Monitoring; Multimedia communication; Network topology; Peer to peer computing; Protocols; Streaming media; TV broadcasting; Telecommunication traffic;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Integrated Network Management, 2009. IM '09. IFIP/IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Long Island, NY

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3486-2

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3487-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/INM.2009.5188824

Filename

5188824