MPhil Thesis Defence


"Offering Differentiated Services for Peer-to-Peer Streaming"

By

Mr. Kan Leung Cheng


Abstract

In traditional overlay multicast network, all peers are treated as equal
regardless of their importance and contribution to the network.  In this
thesis, we consider that each user may have different cost function
depending on his privilege, delay to source, available bandwidth, etc.  We
propose a fully distributed and scalable protocol to construct an overlay
tree to minimize the overall cost of the users.  It uses aggregation to
account for the total cost of one's descendants, and reduces tree cost by
a continuous improvement process.  Through simulation, we show that our
protocol converges reasonably fast.  By comparing with other schemes, our
resultant overlay tree offers differentiated services to users by
appropriately taking into account individual user cost functions.


Date:				Friday, 4 August 2006

Time:				3:00p.m.-5:00p.m.

Venue:				Room 5493
				Lifts 25-26

Committee Members:		Dr. Gary Chan (Supervisor)
				Dr. Brahim Bensaou (Chairperson)
				Dr. Qiong Luo


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