A Novel Monetary Incentive for Commercial P2P Streaming
Irena Trajkovska, Pedro RodrÃ­guez, Javier CerviÃ±o, JoaquÃ­n SalvachÃºa
Journal of Multimedia Processing and Technologies, Vol. 3, No. 3, 2012.
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Link: http://www.dline.info/jmpt/fulltext/v3n3/2.pdf
Abstract:
Today P2P faces two important challenges: design of mechanisms to encourage usersâ€™ collaboration in multimedia live streaming services; design of reliable algorithms with QoS provision, to encourage multimedia providers employ the P2P topology in commercial streaming services. We believe that these two challenges are tightly-related and there is much to be done with respect. This paper proposes a novel monetary incentive for P2P multimedia streaming. The incentive model classifies the users in groups according to the perceived video quality. We apply the model to a streaming systemâ€™s billing model in order to evaluate its feasibility and visualize its quantitative effect on the usersâ€™ motivation and the providerâ€™s profit. We conclude that monetary incentive can boost up usersâ€™ cooperation, loyalty and enhance the overall system integrity and performance. Moreover the model defines the constraints for the providerâ€™s cost and profit when the system is leveraged on the cloud. Considering those constraints, a multimedia content provider can adapt the billing model of his streaming service and achieve desirable discount-profit trade-off. This will moreover contribute to better promotion of the service, across the users on the Internet.