Smart-Fit: Peer-to-Peer Topology Construction Strategy for Live Video Streaming towards Minimal Delay

Abstract

Due to the fast growing bandwidth of Internet users, the P2P live video streaming on the Internet is feasible today. In this research, we proposed a topology construction method: Smart-Fit, towards minimizing the transmission delay between users and video server. The concept is based on minimizing the hop counts between server and users, in further to reduce the delay. The proposed method builds a predicted ideal template. Then the topology is constructed according to the template. Simulation results show the proposed method successfully reduces the hop count and the transmission delay between users and server. Moreover, due to the reduction of hop count, the packet loss rate is also reduced.