BitTube: Case Study of a Web-Based Peer-Assisted Video-on-Demand System Export

@inproceedings{BitTube, abstract = {Recent theoretical and simulation-based studies have confirmed the tremendous benefit of peer-to-peer (P2P)communication at reducing the cost of running a VoD service.To date, very limited effort has been paid to validate the concept of peer-assisted VoD service, especially in terms of system implementation and service deployment. In this paper, we present the case study of a peer-assisted video-on-demand (VoD) system. We designed and developed Bit-Tube, a BitTorrent-compliant VoD system. By combining client/server and P2P downloading, it supports seamless transition across the spectrum from pure client-server mode to BitTorrent mode. Within this framework, we experiment with a series of piece picking policies to enhance BitTubepsilas support to video streaming and promote locality-aware P2P downloading. We evaluate our system over PlanetLab,which hosts the user-side component of the BitTube system and emulates the global-scale user requests to the VoD service.}, author = {Liu, Bo and Cui, Yi and Chang, Bin and Gotow, Ben and Xue, Yuan}, booktitle = {Multimedia, 2008. ISM 2008. Tenth IEEE International Symposium on}, citeulike-article-id = {5007567}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISM.2008.88}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=4741176}, doi = {10.1109/ISM.2008.88}, journal = {Multimedia, 2008. ISM 2008. Tenth IEEE International Symposium on}, keywords = {peer-assist, vod}, pages = {242--249}, posted-at = {2009-06-29 07:39:07}, priority = {2}, title = {BitTube: Case Study of a Web-Based Peer-Assisted Video-on-Demand System}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISM.2008.88}, year = {2008} }

TY - CONF ID - BitTube L3 - citeulike-article-id:5007567 N2 - Recent theoretical and simulation-based studies have confirmed the tremendous benefit of peer-to-peer (P2P)communication at reducing the cost of running a VoD service.To date, very limited effort has been paid to validate the concept of peer-assisted VoD service, especially in terms of system implementation and service deployment. In this paper, we present the case study of a peer-assisted video-on-demand (VoD) system. We designed and developed Bit-Tube, a BitTorrent-compliant VoD system. By combining client/server and P2P downloading, it supports seamless transition across the spectrum from pure client-server mode to BitTorrent mode. Within this framework, we experiment with a series of piece picking policies to enhance BitTubepsilas support to video streaming and promote locality-aware P2P downloading. We evaluate our system over PlanetLab,which hosts the user-side component of the BitTube system and emulates the global-scale user requests to the VoD service. JF - Multimedia, 2008. ISM 2008. Tenth IEEE International Symposium on EP - 249 TI - BitTube: Case Study of a Web-Based Peer-Assisted Video-on-Demand System T2 - Multimedia, 2008. ISM 2008. Tenth IEEE International Symposium on SP - 242 KW - peer-assist KW - vod AU - Liu, Bo AU - Cui, Yi AU - Chang, Bin AU - Gotow, Ben AU - Xue, Yuan PY - 2008/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISM.2008.88 ER -