Network Friendly P2P Streaming: The NAPA-WINE Architecture

Streaming video on P2P overlays puts extremely high demands and stress on the underlying network, especially in case of TV and live streaming. The NAPAWINE consortium has devised an overall architecture for live video streaming that supports the needs of the users and content providers, while being respective of networklevel needs, as reducing inter-AS traffic using ALTO-like services. Prototype applications following the proposed architecture and based on software libraries developed under GPL and LGPL licences by the consortium have already been implemented and are running both in partners premises and in demos showing the viability and performance of the solution.