PhD Qualifying Examination


"Challenges and Approaches in Large-Scale Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming"

Mr. Wai Pun Yiu


Abstract:

Large-scale multimedia streaming over the Internet requires an enormous
amount of server and network resources. Traditional client-server
approach allocates a dedicated stream from the server for each client
request. This technique is extremely expensive and does not scale well
to a large user pool. By making a good use of the huge bandwidth and
computation capacity of end hosts, peer-to-peer technologies shed new
light on the development of media streaming applications over the
Internet. However, peer-to-peer media streaming still confronts some
major challenges such as locating supplying peers, content delivery path
maintenance, failure resilience, etc. In this paper, we give an overview
of these challenges in peer-to-peer media streaming. We also list and
compare their corresponding solutions proposed in the literature.


Date:     		Wednesday, 11 January 2006

Time:                   3:00p.m.-5:00p.m.

Venue:                  Room 2463
			lifts 25-26

Committee Members:      Dr. Gary Chan (Supervisor)
			Dr. Qian Zhang (Chairperson)
			Dr. Fan Zhang
			Dr. Oscar Au (ELEC)


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