Video-Streaming Overlays

This Chapter goes into the details of benchmarking peer-to-peer video streaming systems. We present aspects and techniques that help comparing and analyzing such systems. Video streaming systems have the main task of delivering video content to users. The video content can be presented on various types of devices, such as TV sets, computer systems, and smart phones. The availability of many types of architectures for streaming makes it of essence to define benchmarks and tools to evaluate them. This Chapter addresses these issues along with definitions of metrics and requirements that help in better comparing peer-to-peer streaming systems. The Chapter is organized as follows. First, we present the non-functional requirements peer-to-peer video streaming systems have to consider. Then we present the workload used to benchmark our video streaming system. This is followed by definition of most important metrics for such systems. Then we present an example implementation that ha...