Improving P2P streaming in Wireless Community Networks

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• 作者：Luca Baldesi ^{luca.baldesi@unitn.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Leonardo Maccari ; ^{maccari@disi.unitn.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author} ; ^{leonardo.maccari@disi.unitn.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae ; Renato Lo Cigno ^{renato.locigno@disi.unitn.it" class="auth_mail" title="E-mail the corresponding author}Author Vitae
• 关键词：Wireless Community Networks&rsquo ; P2P live streaming ; Video streaming ; Topology optimization ; Cross-layer design ; Performance evaluation
• 刊名：Computer Networks
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：24 December 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：93
• 期：part_P2
• 页码：389-403
• 全文大小：1475 K

文摘

Wireless Community Networks (WCNs) are bottom-up broadband networks empowering people with their on-line communication means. Too often, however, services tailored for their characteristics are missing, with the consequence that they have worse performance than what they could. We present here an adaptation of an Open Source P2P live streaming platform that works efficiently, and with good application-level quality, over WCNs. WCNs links are normally symmetric (unlike standard ADSL access), and a WCN topology is local and normally flat (contrary to the global Internet), so that the P2P overlay used for video distribution can be adapted to the underlaying network characteristics. We exploit this observation to derive overlay building strategies that make use of cross-layer information to reduce the impact of the P2P streaming on the WCN while maintaining good application performance. We experiment with a real application in real WCN nodes, both in the Community-Lab provided by the CONFINE EU Project and within an emulation framework based on Mininet, where we can build larger topologies and interact more efficiently with the mesh underlay, which is unfortunately not accessible in Community-Lab. The results show that, with the overlay building strategies proposed, the P2P streaming applications can reduce the load on the WCN to about one half, also equalizing the load on links. At the same time the delivery rate and delay of video chunks are practically unaffected.