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LiveSky: Enhancing CDN with P2P

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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications (TOMM), Volume 6, Issue 3

Article No.: 16, Pages 1 - 19

https://doi.org/10.1145/1823746.1823750

Published: 27 August 2010 Publication History

Abstract

We present the design and deployment experiences with LiveSky, a commercial hybrid CDN-P2P live streaming system, which inherits the best of both CDN and P2P. We address several key challenges, including: 1) ease of integration with existing CDN infrastructure, 2) dynamic resource scaling while guaranteeing quality-of-service, 3) providing good user experience, ensuring network friendliness and upload fairness. LiveSky has been used for several large-scale live streaming events in China. Our evaluation results from real-world indicate that such a hybrid CDN-P2P system provides quality and performance comparable to a CDN and effectively scales the system capacity.

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LiveSky: Enhancing CDN with P2P
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Distributed systems organizing principles
        Organizing principles for web applications

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ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications Volume 6, Issue 3

August 2010

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DOI:10.1145/1823746

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Published: 27 August 2010

Accepted: 01 May 2010

Revised: 01 May 2010

Received: 01 March 2010

Published in TOMM Volume 6, Issue 3

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