LiveShift: Peer-to-Peer Live Video Streaming with Distributed Time-Shifting

LiveShift is a research project that investigates the integration in the distribution of live and on-demand P2P video streaming. The main principle is that, while video is transmitted through the peer-to-peer network in a live fashion, all peers also collaborate in storing past streams. This enales peers to replay time-shifted streams from other peers in a distributed and scalable manner, while seamlessly catching back up to the live stream as desired.

Within the LiveShift project, the LiveShift application has been developed. It serves as foundation for demonstrations and evaluation of the LiveShift protocol and proposed approaches. While the application is not ready for user release, we may provide its the source code for research purposes upon contact.

LiveShift's modular architecture allows different policies to be easily implemented without affecting other parts of the system. This enables the evaluation of novel P2P and streaming algorithms.

The source code has been published under GPL v3 at GitHub.

Fabio V. Hecht, LiveShift: A Time-Shifted P2P Multimedia Streaming Approach, Zurich, Switzerland, December 2013.

Fabio V. Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Flavio R. Santos, Burkhard Stiller, Playback Policies for Live and On-Demand P2P Video Streaming. To appear on IFIP/TC6 Networking 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2012.

Fabio V. Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Richard G. Clegg, Raul Landa, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller, LiveShift: Mesh-Pull Live and Time-Shifted P2P Video Streaming. 36th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2011), IEEE Computer Society, Bonn, Germany, October 2011.

Fabio V. Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, B-Tracker: Improving Load Balancing and Efficiency in Distributed P2P Trackers. Eleventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (IEEE P2P'11), Kyoto, Japan, August 2011.

Fabio Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Burkhard Stiller, B-Tracker: improving load balancing and efficiency in distributed P2P trackers. IFI Technical Report, University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, April 2011.

Fabio Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Richard G. Clegg, Raul Landa, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller:LiveShift: Mesh-Pull P2P Live and Time-Shifted Video Streaming (PDF, 403 KB). IFI Technical Report, University of Zurich, Department of Informatics, No. 2010.IFI-2010.0009, Zurich, Switzerland, September 2010.

Fabio Victora Hecht, Burkhard Stiller: Report- and Reciprocity-based Incentive Mechanisms for Live and On-demand P2P Video Streaming. Proceedings of AIMS 2010, Springer LNCS 6155, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2010.

Thomas Bocek, Yehia El-khatib, Fabio Victora Hecht, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: Demonstration of the CompactPSH Incentive Scheme in a Peer-to-Peer Streaming Application. 34th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN 2009), Demo Paper, Zurich, Switzerland, October 2009.

Fabio Victora Hecht, Thomas Bocek, Cristian Morariu, David Hausheer, Burkhard Stiller: LiveShift: Peer-to-peer Live Streaming with Distributed Time-Shifting. Eighth International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P08), Demo Session, Aachen, Germany, September 2008.

• Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller
• Prof. Dr. David Hausheer
• Dr. Thomas Bocek
• Dr. Cristian Morariu
• Dr. Fabio Hecht

Inquiries may be directed to the local Swiss project management:

Prof. Dr. Burkhard Stiller

University of Zürich, IFI

Binzmühlestrasse 14

CH-8050 Zürich

Switzerland

Phone: +41 44 635 67 10

Fax: +41 44 635 68 09