Epidemic live streaming
Thomas Bonald, Laurent Massoulié, Fabien Mathieu, Diego Perino, Andrew Twigg · 2008
Several peer-to-peer systems for live streaming have been recently deployed (e.g. CoolStreaming, PPLive, SopCast). These all rely on distributed, epidemic-style dissemination mechanisms. Despite their popularity, the fundamental performance trade-offs of such mechanisms are still poorly understood. In this paper we propose several results that contribute to the understanding of such trade-offs.