Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Application Survey

Abstract

Up to now, the Internet has been growing both in size and technologically. It is also not uncommon to find many types of media within a single web-page such as 3D animations, sound, video clips, online radio and TV services. Streaming is the technology which enables this, by viewing a media while downloading it. An important amount of research has been achieved to improve this bandwidth sensitive technology. Peer-To-Peer (P2P) network is at the moment one of the most effective solution to distribute streaming data within a large scale overlay, involving potentially thousands of nodes. This paper presents a survey on existing P2P media streaming systems. Our main goal is to study different P2P media streaming applications, state their results and present our analysis of each system.