Understanding the flash crowd in P2P live video streaming systems Export

@inproceedings{citeulike:6072606, abstract = {Peer-to-peer (P2P) live video streaming systems have recently received significant attention, with commercial deployment gaining increased popularity in the Internet. It is evident from our experiences with real-world systems that, it is not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of users trying to join a program in the first few minutes of a live broadcast. This phenomenon, unique in live streaming systems, referred to as the flash crowd, poses significant challenges in the system design. In this paper, we develop a mathematical model to capture the inherent relationship between time and scale in P2P streaming systems under the flash crowd. Specifically, we show that there is an upper bound on the system scale with respect to a time constraint. In addition, our analysis has brought forth an in-depth understanding on the effect from the gossip protocol and churn effects.}, author = {Liu, Fangming and Li, Bo and Zhong, Lili and Li, Baochun}, citeulike-article-id = {6072606}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PACKET.2009.5152154}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=5152154}, day = {30}, doi = {10.1109/PACKET.2009.5152154}, journal = {Packet Video Workshop, 2009. PV 2009. 17th International}, keywords = {live\_streaming, p2p, pv09}, month = {June}, pages = {1--10}, posted-at = {2009-11-05 07:52:22}, priority = {2}, title = {Understanding the flash crowd in P2P live video streaming systems}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PACKET.2009.5152154}, year = {2009} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:6072606 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6072606 N2 - Peer-to-peer (P2P) live video streaming systems have recently received significant attention, with commercial deployment gaining increased popularity in the Internet. It is evident from our experiences with real-world systems that, it is not uncommon to have hundreds of thousands of users trying to join a program in the first few minutes of a live broadcast. This phenomenon, unique in live streaming systems, referred to as the flash crowd, poses significant challenges in the system design. In this paper, we develop a mathematical model to capture the inherent relationship between time and scale in P2P streaming systems under the flash crowd. Specifically, we show that there is an upper bound on the system scale with respect to a time constraint. In addition, our analysis has brought forth an in-depth understanding on the effect from the gossip protocol and churn effects. JF - Packet Video Workshop, 2009. PV 2009. 17th International EP - 10 TI - Understanding the flash crowd in P2P live video streaming systems SP - 1 KW - live_streaming KW - p2p KW - pv09 AU - Liu, Fangming AU - Li, Bo AU - Zhong, Lili AU - Li, Baochun PY - 2009/06/30/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PACKET.2009.5152154 ER -