Caracterização da dinâmica de participantes e comunidades em um sistema P2P de transmissão de vídeo ao vivo

Abstract

P2P live streaming systems have attracted a lot of attention from the research community in the last years. Such systems generate a large amount of data which impacts the network performance. Despite large number of works devoted to understand P2P live streaming applications, most of them rely on characterizing the static view of these systems. These works do not worry about either understanding the systems dynamics or analyzing how it evolves over time. Through experiments in PlanetLab platform, we present a characterization of the SopCast application, one of the most important P2P live streaming system. We focus on characterizing the dynamics of P2P overlay topology. We also investigated the community formation process in SopCast overlay and the correlation of these communities with the Autonomous Systems of the Internet (AS). Our results show that the formation of communities is well de ned by the exchange of tra c and a small portion of peers of these groups is responsible for supporting the entire community. Furthermore, there is a evidence that peeers are not grouped according to their Autonomous Systems. Indeed, the probability of a community be formed with more 50% of members belonging to the same AS is less than 10%. Finally, the characterizations we conduct provide important information to new P2P live streaming protocols and membership algorithms design. Moreover, the presented characterization may be useful to developers create algorithms that reduces the transmission cost on the P2P network.