Improving VoD server efficiency with bittorrent
Yung Ryn Choe, Derek L. Schuff, Jagadeesh M. Dyaberi, Vijay S. Pai · 2007
This paper presents and evaluates Toast, a scalable Video-on-Demand (VoD)streaming system that combines the popular BitTorrent peer-to-peer (P2P)file-transfer technology with a simple dedicated streaming server to decrease server load and increase client transfer speed. Toast includes a modified version of BitTorrent that supports streaming data delivery and that communicates with a VoD server when the desired data cannot be delivered in real-time by other peers.