A Survey on Peer-to-Peer Overlay Network Schemes

Abstract

With the growing popularity of multimedia services such as IPTV, these P2P network overlay schemes are in the limelight and actively under studied as a good alternative or complementary solution for internet multimedia service systems. Therefore, in this paper, we review and compare the P2P overlay network schemes that have been introduced and researched recently by categorizing into two groups, i.e., "structured" and "unstructured".