Design and Implementation of P2P Based Live Streaming System for STB Client[J]. Journal of Image and Graphics, 2007, 12(10): 1706. DOI: 10.11834/jig.20071004.
IPTV live streaming systems with client-sever based content delivery infrastructures cannot provide service to mass clients due to their high requirement of server hardware configuration and network bandwidth. This paper presents a P2P(point-to-point) based live streaming system-“ClearLive”
which tries to achieve better scalability than client-server based system. While current popular P2P IPTV systems supportonly PC client
our system mainly supports STB clientand is compatible with PC client.“ClearLive”is properly designed according to the characteristic of STB client and application environment of IPTV. The test result of system shows that“ClearLive”can provide high quality live streaming service to vast number of clients with low cost.