On mobile clients as free riders in peer-to-peer live streaming

Author

Ting, Wei-Chih ; Liu, Pin-Chuan ; Chang, Shu-Hsin ; Chen, Jui-Wen

Author_Institution

Ind. Technol. Res. Inst., Hsinchu, Taiwan

fYear

2011

fDate

21-25 March 2011

Firstpage

471

Lastpage

476

Abstract

Mobile devices today such as netbooks, tablet PCs and smart phones provide user-friendly interfaces for people to capture live video. However as a viewer, they prefer not to share downloaded clips due to the limited computing power, upload bandwidth and mostly due to the high power consumption while scheduling segments. In this paper, we discuss the possibility of allowing mobile clients run as free riders under managed usage by assigning a suitable serving peer, and analyze the impact caused by mobile clients on the required bandwidth of our P2P live streaming system, which is a server-enabled architecture that provides client-to-client (C2C) live streaming service.

Keywords

mobile computing; peer-to-peer computing; P2P live streaming system; client-to-client live streaming service; mobile client; mobile devices; peer-to-peer live streaming; Bandwidth; Conferences; Mobile communication; Peer to peer computing; Relays; Servers; Streaming media; P2P; live; mobile; streaming;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PERCOM Workshops), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-61284-938-6

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-61284-936-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PERCOMW.2011.5766936

Filename

5766936