Description

Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads between peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application. They are said to form a peer-to-peer network of nodes. A peer-to-peer network is designed around the notion of equal peer nodes simultaneously functioning as both “clients” and “servers” to the other nodes on the network. This model of network arrangement differs from the client–server model where communication is usually to and from a central server. Most research on P2P streaming has been focused on the increasingly popular live P2P streaming. They proposed to overcome the scalability issues that arise when delivering live streams to very large numbers of receivers. These approaches focus on building efficient multicast overlay among receivers to effectively distribute and share live video streams. If a receiver wants to access a given live stream, he/she will join the overlay multicast group associated with that live stream and start receiving complementary sub streams from other neighboring receivers (peers) that are part of the same overlay multicast. In this project, the system presents an adaption for classifying broadband users into a P2P- and a non-P2P group based on the amount of communication partners (“peers”) they have in a dedicated timeframe.