On Market-Driven Market Hybrid-P2P P2P Video Streaming
Abstract: free) quality of service is required in peer peer-to to-peer (P2P) video Consistent (pause-free) streaming systems. In this paper, we aim to eliminate the problem of playback pauses in such systems via the use of positive incentives for peers to contribute high upload rates. ates. We model our problem as a market, where the market stakeholders consist of multiple content providers, advertisement providers, and network peers; the positive incentives for peers in the market are reduced advertisement (ad) viewing durations. From a system design perspective, one of our primary goals is to compute the market equilibria that include appropriate ad viewing durations, offering sufficient incentives for network peers to continue contributing. Our simulation-based simulation based studies demonstrate tha that we mitigate the “playback pause� problem for peers by up to 80% as compared to existing approaches, generate sufficient utility for advertisers to be part of the market, and enable content providers to achieve their desired utility by providing sufficientt incentives for all peers to stay in the system without violating ad provider agreements.