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Stanford P2P Group Releases Software and Analysis

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-think-about dept.

Bert690 writes "Apropos of yesterday's Slashdot story on BitTorrent: Some folks at Stanford have released a paper on P2P "bucket brigade"-like streaming that contains *an actual analysis* and a downloadable implementation." Could this be considered actual research on the subject of p2p networks and scalability?

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  1. Some questions... by neonstz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    After reading the paper I have a few questions. (Yeah, I know this is just research).

    If this is implemented in the real world, are each user supposed to use his/her outgoing bandwidth for this? What about people unfortunate enough to have a monthly limit?

    What if the same connection is used by more than one person/client? With 4 PeerCast nodes, or maybe just 1 PeerCast node on the same connection as a web-server, will PeerCast detect that there suddenly is a lot less bandwith available than just two minutes ago (maybe because of slashdotting :).

  2. Re:Doesn't utilize upload capacity of leaves by bramcohen · · Score: 2, Insightful
    real-time streaming imposes more constraints on the client than does "plain old" file transfer.
    There's a tradeoff between demands made on the client and demands made on the server. Making life easier for the client is a bad thing - it causes more problems on the server, which is where all the difficulties were to begin with.