Reputation Based Delay Resistant Reliable Hybrid Overlay Structures for Peer to Peer Video Streaming

Abstract

Video streaming has achieved enormous popularity in the past couple of decades. It newlinerepresents a substantial part of Internet traffic and considered as one of the Internet s primary service. The emergence of new streaming applications and the extensive newlineutilization of streaming is growing every day. The state-of-the-art Peer-to-Peer (P2P) newlineoverlay multicasting model is considered to be a better strategy as it offers more benefits than conventional models. Uses of P2P applications vary from file sharing to streaming and many more. People are increasingly continuing to stream by connecting their devices in a wired or wireless environment. Though P2P overlay offers advantages, the overlay newlineneeds to consider dynamic nature of user behavior (joining and leaving the streaming newlinesession at any time). Overlay construction algorithms need to take into account the newlinechallenges of constructing a reliable overlay to stream videos of higher-quality in both newlinewired and wireless network with minimal network resource utilization. This thesis has newlinecontributed on developing overlay construction strategies for streaming across 1) a single server and client, and 2) single server and multi-clients. The Error Compensated Data Distribution (ECDD), Improved Delay Resistant Adaptive Multicasting with Arbitrary scheduling (IDRAM-A), and Improved Delay Resistant Adaptive Multicasting with Selective scheduling (IDRAM-S) models are suggested for a single server and client in a wireless network. It is essential that the system recommended for data delivery in wireless network needs to provide a reliable service to the end-users. That is, packet losses and data errors must be taken care by the system and, at the same time, it has to deliver data before its deadline arrives for video delivery. Therefore, in the proposed models, reliability is entrusted by building a multipath stability-aware overlay and maintaining a pool of spare paths. Quick delivery of lost data to end-users is accomplished in ECDD using overlay based retransmission ..