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On demand peer-to-peer video streaming with multiple description coding

  • US 7,633,887 B2
  • Filed: 01/23/2006
  • Issued: 12/15/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/21/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for provisioning nodes in a peer-to-peer video streaming network, the method comprising:

  • accepting information of available server peers in the peer-to-peer video streaming network wherein the accepted information of available server peers includes an uplink bandwidth between each of the server peers and a transport network portion of the peer-to-peer video streaming network;

    determining on the computer video sub-streams for the video and server peers on which to store the video sub-streams using both a distortion constraint and the accepted information of available server peers by determining an acceptance probability of a video session subject to the video session meeting the distortion constraint; and

    transmitting the determined video sub-streams to the server peers on which it was determined to store the video sub-streams.

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