TY - GEN
T1 - Measuring P2P IPTV systems
AU - Silverston, Thomas
AU - Fourmaux, Olivier
N1 - Funding Information:
This work is supported by the European Union under the IST Content project (FP6-2006-IST-507295).
Publisher Copyright:
Copyright 2007 ACM.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - P2P IPTV systems start to be very popular on the Internet. Measuring the impact they have on the network and understanding their behavior is an important field. Available applications are based on proprietary solutions, thus traffic analysis is the only feasible way to identify the mechanisms used to get video streams. In this context, during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, we performed an extensive measurement campaign. During this worldwide event, we measured network traffic generated by the most common P2P IPTV applications, namely PPLive, PPStream, SOPCast, an TVAnts. Our observations show that all these applications generate different traffic patterns and use different underlying mechanisms. Each application has its own download policy and maintains a different set of peers. From the traces we collected, we extract several statistics, which help in having a better understanding of the behavior of P2P IPTV systems.
AB - P2P IPTV systems start to be very popular on the Internet. Measuring the impact they have on the network and understanding their behavior is an important field. Available applications are based on proprietary solutions, thus traffic analysis is the only feasible way to identify the mechanisms used to get video streams. In this context, during the 2006 FIFA World Cup, we performed an extensive measurement campaign. During this worldwide event, we measured network traffic generated by the most common P2P IPTV applications, namely PPLive, PPStream, SOPCast, an TVAnts. Our observations show that all these applications generate different traffic patterns and use different underlying mechanisms. Each application has its own download policy and maintains a different set of peers. From the traces we collected, we extract several statistics, which help in having a better understanding of the behavior of P2P IPTV systems.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79551642247
T3 - NOSSDAV 2007 - 17th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video
BT - NOSSDAV 2007 - 17th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video
PB - Nossdav.org
T2 - 17th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, NOSSDAV 2007
Y2 - 4 June 2007 through 5 June 2007
ER -