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European research - FIA Projects
NAPA-WINE
Abstract
TV services over the Internet can be provided either exploiting IP multicast
functionalities or relying on a pure end-to-end (P2P) approach. The first
technique unfortunately, will only work on a network infrastructure controlled
by a single broadband operator due to limitations of IP multicast facilities. On
the contrary, the P2P approach has been successfully exploited to overcome these
limits and can potentially offer a scalable planetary infrastructure. Recently,
several P2P-TV systems started to show up, with the last generation offering
High Quality TV (P2P-HQTV) systems, providing a ubiquitous access to the
service. These same potentialities of P2P-TV systems constitute a worry for
network carriers since the traffic they generate may potentially grow without
control, causing a degradation of quality of service perceived by Internet users
or even the network collapse (and the consequent failure of the P2P-HQTV service
itself!).
Starting from these considerations the NAPA-WINE project, funded by the European
Commission within the seventh framework programme, aims at:
- providing a careful analysis of the impact that a large deployment of both general P2P-TV and P2P-HQTV services may have on the Internet, through an in detailed characterization of the traffic they generate;
- providing guidelines for P2P-TV developers regarding the design of systems that minimize the impact on the underlying transport network while optimizing the user perceived quality;
- providing a road map for Internet Service Providers to better exploit the network bandwidth by showing simple and minimum cost actions that can be taken in presence of P2P-TV traffic.
Info Brochure / Fact Sheet
If you are interested in any of this information please inform the
coordinator Emilio Leonardi
leonardi @ tlc.polito.it
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