Quantitative Analysis of Strategies for Streaming Media Distribution

Streaming media applications are becoming more pop-ular on the late years, as for example, news transmitted live through the web, music, show, and lms. Traditional client/server architectures have shown to be inefcient for distributing streaming media services. The total number of users is limited due to the demand of computational re-sources, which are higher than in traditional web applica-tions. One of the proposals for an efcient distribution is the use of a P2P overlay network. Although there are some works that evaluate this proposal through simulation, there is a lack of quantitative analysis of the requirements for server and network resources (i.e., CPU, server and net-work bandwidth) in actual P2P systems, compared to tradi-tional client/server systems. This work is to ll this gap b