The SPP Architecture

ISBN-13: 9783639157215 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 248 str.

Karl-Andre' Skevik

Opis

After many years of reluctance, major content ownersfinally appear to have embraced the Internet. Thereare now several legal download services available onthe Internet, but downloading incurs a delay for theuser. Streaming reduces this delay, but creating ascalable interactive Video-on-Demand streamingservice is neither trivial nor cheap, creating highbarriers to entry.In this book, we address the problem of designing andimplementing a scalable system for Internet basedinteractive multimedia streaming, and present theStreaming P2P Protocol (SPP) architecture, a systemfor low-cost interactive Video-on-Demand services.Using a combination of content distribution networksand Peer-to-Peer networking techniques, the SPParchitecture achieves the benefits of a contentdistribution network without the costs being carriedby a single entity. Fully deployed, theinfrastructure of the SPP architecture is not ownedby a single entity but a result of actions beneficialfor all parties. Content providers can distributecontent at low cost, users have greater access tomore content, and network owners can control andreduce traffic.

O autorze

Karl-Andre' Skevik has done research on operating systems, video
streaming, and future networks. He received a Ph.D. in computer
science from the University of Oslo in 2007, and is one of the
original developers of the Dante SOCKS software package.