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PEER-TO-PEER MULTIMEDIA STREAMING Peer-to-Peer Live Video Streaming on the Internet: Issues, Existing Approaches, and Challenges Bo Li, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Hao Yin, Tsinghua University ABSTRACT numerous proposals for layered-based codec to cope with heterogeneity and dynamic; there Live video streaming is perhaps the greatest were also many proposals on error-resilient unfulfilled promise of the Internet. There have codec in attempts to deal with packet loss using been tremendous efforts in the design and exper- error concealment techniques. In the Internet imentation of video-streaming systems in the research community, multicast was demonstrated past two decades; there have been no shortage as a promising technique that can significantly of technical innovations, yet no single system has reduce the duplication of data transmissions. delivered the scale and service quality. The fun- There are two categories of proposals, one offer- damental problem that throttles the large-scale ing multicast at the native IP layer and the other, deployment of Internet video streaming is the called end system multicast, pushing multicast dissatisfaction end-users experience with perfor- functionality to the edge of the network, that is, mance. This is caused by a combination of many at the application level. At the same time, there factors, such as the autonomous nature of the were tr