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Content Delivery Architectures for Live Video Streaming: Hybrid CDN-P2P as the best option

Authors:
Melika Meskovic
Himzo Bajric
Mladen Kos

Keywords: live streaming; CDN; P2P; hybrid CDN-P2P

Abstract:
In the last years, with the help of high-speed and broadband networking, the content delivery service has been grown up widely. There are a lot of providers for online streaming via Content Delivery Network (CDN), Peer to Peer (P2P) network or hybrid CDN-P2P system. In this paper, we analyse a hybrid solution for real-time streaming: hybrid CDN-P2P mechanism that takes the best of both CDN and P2P content delivery architectures. By adapting the best of breed of both worlds (CDN and P2P), we detail a hybrid model which, thorough quantative analysis, shows the benefits of merging the two architectures. Through simulation, we will show that a hybrid CDN-P2P approach is a much more stable platform whilst at the same time a very cost effective approach in providing a live streaming service to the masses.

Pages: 26 to 32

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: April 29, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4022

ISBN: 978-1-61208-192-2

Location: Chamonix, France

Dates: from April 29, 2012 to May 4, 2012