Open Issues in P2P Multimedia Streaming
Djamal‐Eddine Meddour, Mubasher Mushtaq, Toufik Ahmed · 2006
Abstract — Peer to Peer networks (P2P) consist of a set of logically connected end-clients called peers, which form an application-level overlay network on top of the physical network. P2P solution facilitates contents/files sharing among Internet users in a fully distributed fashion. This paradigm is anticipated to resolve observed limitations in current centralized solution distribution and to significantly improve their performance. P2P networks are undergoing rapid progress and inspiring numerous developments. Although initially P2P networks were designed for file sharing, but their dynamic nature makes them challenging for media applications streaming. Despite recent advances in streaming P2P multimedia system, many research challenges remain to be tackled. This paper presents a state of the art study on several solutions, which exploit the power of P2P technique to improve the current multimedia streaming protocol. Different aspects related to the topic are explored in order to point out the open research issues in the domain of Peer to Peer Multimedia Streaming. Our foremost objective in this paper is to motivate and guide the ongoing research to tackle these challenging problems and help to realize efficient streaming multimedia P2P mechanisms.