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Most of the work on grid technology in video area has been generally restricted to aspects of resource scheduling and replica management. The traffic of such service has a lot of characteristics in common with that of the traditional video service. However the architecture and user behavior in Grid networks are quite different from those of traditional Internet. Considering the potential of grid networks and video sharing services, measuring and analyzing P2P IPTV traffic are important and fundamental works in the field grid networks.
This paper investigates the features of PPLive, which is the most popular streaming service in China and based on P2P technology. Through monitoring and analyzing PPLive traffic streams, the characteristics of P2P streaming service have been studied. The analyses are carried out in respect of bearing protocols, geographical distribution and the self-similarity properties of the traffic. A streaming service traffic model has been created and verified with the simulation. The simulation results indicate that the proposed streaming service traffic model complies well with the real IPTV streaming service. It can also function as a step towards studying video-sharing services on grids.
This work is partially supported by the European Sixth Framework Program (FP6) under the contract STREP FP6-2006 IST-045256.
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Gao, P., Liu, T., Chen, Y., Wu, X., El-khatib, Y., Edwards, C. (2009). The Measurement and Modeling of a P2P Streaming Video Service. In: Vicat-Blanc Primet, P., Kudoh, T., Mambretti, J. (eds) Networks for Grid Applications. GridNets 2008. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02080-3_3
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