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Session Level Analysis of P2P Television Traces

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Future Multimedia Networking (FMN 2010)

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In this study we examine statistical properties of traffic generated by the popular P2P IPTV application SopCast. The analysis aims at a better understanding of the mechanisms used by such applications and their impact on the network. Since the most popular P2P IPTV applications use proprietary unpublished protocols, we look directly at the generated traffic focusing on a single session analysis, which is the major contribution of our work. We present a basic characterisation of the traffic profile generated by SopCast during every separate session in terms of the intensity, the burstiness, the distribution of the packet sizes and the correlation. We show that some of these statistical properties of the analysed traffic may be quite different depending on the particular session.

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  1. Institute of Computer Science, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100, Gliwice, Poland

    Arkadiusz Biernacki

  2. Dep. of Information Systems and Applied Computer Science, Otto-Friedrich University Bamberg, D-96045, Bamberg, Germany

    Udo R. Krieger

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of the District of Columbia, 4200, Connecticut Avenue, 20008, Washington, DC, USA

    Sherali Zeadally

  2. Faculty of Computer Engineering, Federal University of Pará, Belém, Pará, Brazil

    Eduardo Cerqueira

  3. Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Polo II, Pinhal de Marrocos, 3030-290, Coimbra, Portugal

    Marília Curado

  4. Department of Telecommunications, AGH University of Science and Technology, Kraków, Poland

    Mikołaj Leszczuk

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Biernacki, A., Krieger, U.R. (2010). Session Level Analysis of P2P Television Traces. In: Zeadally, S., Cerqueira, E., Curado, M., Leszczuk, M. (eds) Future Multimedia Networking. FMN 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6157. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13789-1_15

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