Honeycomb: A peer-to-peer substrate for on-demand media streaming service

Abstract

Peer-to-Peer media streaming service has gained tremendous momentum in recent years. However, a number of challenges in Peer-to-Peer media streaming have not been addressed. In this paper, we propose a peer-to-peer substrate for supplying on-demand media streaming service, called Honeycomb, which mainly addresses on the key technical issue of: constructing a locality-aware P2P overlay network with high scalability and manageability. Honeycomb can fully utilize the locality of underlying physical network so that the bandwidth consumption used for the overlay maintenance can be effectively saved and the QoS requirements for delivering media content can be easily satisfied. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2004.