Date: Sept 18th, 2008
Room: ICICS/CS 206
Speaker: Son Vuong
Title: BitVampire: A System for On-Demand P2P Video Streaming Over the Internet

Abstract: On-demand media streaming has gained considerable attention in recent years owing to its promising usage in a rich set of Internet-based services such as movies on demand and distance learning. However, the current solutions for on-demand media streaming, primarily based on the client-server model, are not economical and not scalable due to the high cost in deploying the servers and the heavy media traffic overload on the servers.

We propose a scalable cost-effective P2P solution, called Bit-Vampire, that aggregates the peers' storage and bandwidth to facilitate on-demand media streaming. In this talk, we will discuss the state-of-the-art of P2P on-demand video streaming and in particular present a novel category overlay P2P architecture that enables efficient content search, called COOL (CategOry OverLay) search, and the concept of Bit-Vampire that makes use of COOL search and a scheduling algorithm for efficient concurrent media streaming from multiple peers. Other related practical issues such as efficient pre-release distribution for flash crowd congestion avoidance are also discussed. We plan to show a P2P movies streaming demo to illustrate the application of Bit-Vampire that will enable the "Internet DVD player" technology in the future.