外文翻译-P2P视频点播系统的最新进展.docVIP

外文原文 Recent Advances in Peer-to-Peer Media Streaming Systems ABSTRACT Recently, there is great interest in using the peer-to-peer (P2P) network in media streaming. A great number of P2P media streaming systems have been developed. In this paper, we first give a brief survey on some key techniques and algorithms in the field of P2P streaming research. We also analyze the market view of P2P streaming media service, and give a brief descrip-tion about the current mainstream P2P streaming systems deployed in China. INTRODUCTION The rapid development of the Internet has changed the conven-tional ways that people access and consume information.Besides sending and receiving e-mails, browsing web pages, and downloading data files, people also hope to call telephone, watch movie and TV, and conduct other entertainments via the same Internet. The ideal objective is that anyone can access anything (contents) from anywhere at any time. It is commonly conceived that the next generation Internet should be a multi-media communication network based on the core of IP protocol. Besides traditional data services, other multimedia contents such as voice, image, and video, would also be delivered over the same IP network, among which the streaming media service will play a very more important role. Streaming media enables real-time and continuous delivery of video and audio data in a fashion of “flow”, i.e., once the sender begins to transmit, the receiver can start playback almost at the same time while it is receiving media data from the sender, instead of waiting for the entire media file to be ready in the local storage. Unlike normal data file, a streaming media file is huge, thus requires high channel bandwidth. Moreover, streaming media also carries stringent demand in the timing of packet delivery. The large size of the streaming media as well as its delivery timing requirement causes a streaming media server to be expensive to set up and run. In traditional client/server-based