Centralized P2P Streaming with MDC

Abstract

Peer-to-peer networking technique represents a vast potential to overcome many constraints in the conventional content distribution networks. In this paper, we propose centralized peer-to-peer (P2P) video streaming with multiple-description coding. Centralized P2P streaming with single and multiple forwarding peers are studied in this paper. We compare between the network loads at the bottleneck link of the client/server framework and that of the proposed framework. The reconstructed video qualities are evaluated in several experiments. We also analyze the frame dropout rates for the proposed system