Title :
Scaling Peer-to-Peer Video-on-Demand systems using helpers
Author :
Zhang, Hao ; Wang, Jiajun ; Chen, Minghua ; Ramchandran, Kannan
Author_Institution :
Dept. of EECS, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
Abstract :
The throughput of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems is typically capped by the users´ aggregate upload bandwidth [1]. The drastic increase in the popularity of VoD and the demand of higher quality content has thus placed substantial burden on the content servers. We investigate a novel P2P VoD architecture that leverages idle Internet resources, which we call helpers, to provide a scalable solution to P2P VoD systems. Helpers are volatile in nature, and can be individually unreliable. However, we investigate the statistical aggregation of a large number of helpers to guarantee quality of service. Since helpers do not come with ¿free¿ preloaded content, trade-offs between how much a helper should download and how much it can aid the system need to be explored. In this paper, the optimal steady-state design parameters are derived to maximize the helpers´ upload bandwidth utilization. Packet level simulations have verified the efficiency of the system. In a typical scenario of 240 users and a required theoretical minimum of 120 helpers with an average upload bandwidth of 256 kbps, a streaming rate of 384 kbps can be sustained with < 2% relative server load. Results also show that the system is robust to helper churn.
Keywords :
peer-to-peer computing; quality of service; video on demand; video streaming; Internet resources; P2P VoD architecture; bandwidth utilization; content servers; optimal steady-state design; packet level simulations; peer-to-peer video-on-demand systems; quality of service; statistical aggregation; streaming rate; Aggregates; Bandwidth; Peer to peer computing; Quality of service; Steady-state; Streaming media; Throughput; Web and internet services; Web server; YouTube; Video communications; helpers; peer-to-peer; video-on-demand;
Conference_Titel :
Image Processing (ICIP), 2009 16th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Cairo
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5653-6
Electronic_ISBN :
1522-4880
DOI :
10.1109/ICIP.2009.5414399