An Empirical Study of the Beezone System

Bee zone is a large-scale live video streaming system, which adopts dual-protocol-stack technology and gossip-like protocol to build an unstructured P2P application layer overlay, which can be used in IPv4/v6 hybrid network environment. We run the system during the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa. By collecting the logs from the system when it works, we study the workload, performance, and dynamics of the system. Based on these logs, we show that (1) the system can be used in hybrid network environment, which makes the playback smooth and reduces latency at end users. (2) it can make good use of IPv6 bandwidth, and (3) the dynamics of the system is slow. Our results fully verified the performance of Bee zone, and indicate the use of IPv6 channel can improves the performance of the P2P video streaming system.