Smooth Video Delivery for SVC Based Media Streaming Over P2P Networks

In this paper, we leverage the characteristics of scalable video coding (SVC) and P2P networks in order to propose an efficient and adaptive video streaming mechanism. We aim to maintain smooth content delivery of certain acceptable QoS (quality of service) for the received video. The proposed system is composed of an adaptive streaming mechanism which is based on the efficient SVC content scheduling to coordinate among receiver and sender peers for smooth media streaming. Performance evaluation of our system conducted using NS-2 simulation demonstrates a significant improvement in the received video quality compared to conventional streaming approaches.