A simple FSPN model of P2P live video streaming system

Abstract

Peer to Peer (P2P) live streaming is relatively new paradigm that aims at streaming live video to large number of clients at low cost. Many such applications already exist in the market, but, prior to creating such system it is necessary to analyze its performance via representative model that can provide good insight in the system's behavior. Modeling and performance analysis of P2P live video streaming systems is challenging task which requires addressing many properties and issues of P2P systems that create complex combinatorial problem. Inspired by several related articles, in this paper we present our Fluid Stochastic Petri Net (FSPN) model for performance analysis of a mesh based P2P live video streaming system.