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Abstract P2P streaming systems show more and more popularity in current Internet with proprietary protocols. This document identifies problems of the proprietary protocols, proposes standard signaling protocols called PPSP and discusses the scope and use cases of PPSP. Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 2] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ................................................ 3 2. Conventions used in this document............................ 5 3. Problem statement ........................................... 6 3.1. Difficulties for ISP in deploying P2P caches ........... 6 3.2. Difficult interactionies in building open streaming delivery infrastructure .............................................. 6 3.3. Difficulties with in mobile and wireless environment.....7 3.4. Difficulties for resource-constraint tTerminals to run different daemons at the same time........................... 8 4. PPSP:Standard peer to peer streaming protocols ...............9 5. Use cases of PPSP .......................................... 12 5.1. Worldwide provision of open P2P live streaming services.12 5.2. CDN supporting P2P streaming........................... 13 5.3. PPSP supporting cross-screen streaming in heterogeneous environment ................................................ 14 5.4. Supporting P2P streaming in cellular mobile network.....14 5.5. Cache service supporting P2P streaming .................15 6. Security Considerations..................................... 17 6.1. Tracker Protocol....................................... 17 6.2. Peer Protocol ......................................... 17 7. References ................................................. 18 8. Acknowledgments ............................................ 20 1. Introduction Streaming traffic is among the fastest growing traffic on the Internet. As Cisco Visual Network Traffic index measured, video streaming already generates the largest volume of Internet traffic in the year of 2010, and the percentage is expected to rise to as high as 91% of the total Internet traffic by 2014[Cisco]. There are two basic architectures for delivering streaming traffic on the Internet: the client-server paradigm and the peer to peer (P2P) paradigm [Survey].The basic advantage of the P2P paradigm is its scalability and fault tolerance against failures of centralized infrastructures. As an example, PPLive [PPLive], one of the largest P2P streaming vendors, is able to distribute large-scale, live streaming programs such as the CCTV Spring Festival Gala to more than 3 million users with only a handful of servers. It can also deliver VoD streaming to a scale of some hundred of thousands simultaneous users using the same structure and similar protocols[VoD]. The effect of P2P technologies is also well demonstrated in delivering real and Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 3] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 VoD streaming effectively in current practice like CNN [CNN] PPstream [PPstream],UUSee [UUSee]and CNTV[CNTV]. The latest release of Adobe Flash, a major platform of streaming distribution in the Internet, has also introduced Cirrus [Cirrus], a peer assisted data exchange mode. What's more, along with the new players like CDN vendors (e.g.,Akamai [Akamai], ChinaCache[ChinaCache]) and ISPs(e.g., ComCast [ComCast])joining in the effort of using P2P streaming delivery in providing their content, the P2P streaming ecosystem is becoming more complex with diverse players varying from the source, infrastructure side, edge delivery side even to the heterogeneous kinds of terminals. Given the increasing integration of P2P streaming into the global content delivery infrastructure, the lacking of an open, standard P2P streaming signaling protocol suite becomes a major missing component in the protocol stack. Almost all these systems use their proprietary signaling protocols. Multiple, similar but proprietary signaling protocols result in repetitious development efforts for new systems, and the lock-in effects lead to substantial difficulties in their integration. For example, in the enhancement of existing caches and CDN systems to support P2P streaming, the open protocols will dynamically reduce the complexity of the interaction with different P2P streaming applications. In this document we propose an open P2P streaming protocol named PPSP, to standardize signaling operations on two important components, peer and tracker in P2P streaming systems for information exchange. The problems of proprietary signaling protocols and benefit of PPSP are explained further in section 3. PPSP will serve as an enabling technology, building on the development experiences of existing P2P streaming systems. Its design will allow it to integrate with IETF protocols on distributed resource location, traffic localization, and streaming control and data transfer mechanisms for building a complete streaming system or updating /integrating existing cache/CDN/routers to support P2P streaming delivery. Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 4] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 2. Conventions used in this document Chunk: A chunk is a basic unit of partitioned streaming. Peers may use a chunk as a unit of storage, advertisement and exchange among peers [VoD]. Note that a streaming system may use different units for advertisement and data exchange, using chunks during data exchange, and a larger unit such as a set of chunks during advertisement. Content Distribution Network (CDN): A CDN node refers to a network entity that is deployed in the network (e.g., at the network edge or data centers) to store content provided by the original servers, and serves content to the clients located nearby topologically. Live streaming: It refers to a scenario where all clients receive streaming content for the same ongoing event. It is desired that the lags between the play points of the clients and that of the streaming source be small. P2P cache: A P2P cache refers to a network entity that caches P2P traffic in the network, and either transparently or explicitly as a peer distributes content to other peers. Peer: A peer refers to a participant in a P2P streaming system that not only receives streaming content, but also stores and uploads streaming content to other participants. PPSP: The abbreviation of P2P streaming protocols. PPSP refer to the key signaling protocols among various P2P streaming system components, including the tracker and the peer. Swarm: A swarm refers to a group of clients (i.e., peers) who exchang data to distribute the same content (e.g. video/audio program, digital file, etc) at a given time. Tracker: A tracker refers to a directory server which maintains a list of peers storing chunks for a specific channel or streaming file, and answers queries from peers for peer lists. The tracker is a logic component which can be centralized or distributed. Video-on-demand (VoD): It refers to a scenario where different clients may watch different parts of the same recorded media content during a past event. Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 5] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 3. Problem statement The problems brought by proprietary signaling for P2P streaming applications are listed as follows. 3.1. Difficulties for ISP in deploying P2P caches Facing with many P2P streaming applications, ISPs are witnessing a big traffic tension on their backbone and inter-networking ports.P2P cache is used to reduce the traffic by dynamically storing the frequently accessed streaming content (maybe in chunk or in file granularity). However, the cache nodes need to execute DPI (deep packet inspection) for identifying different P2P streaming systems. Multiple ever changing proprietary P2P streaming protocols require the P2P cache updating its matching library constantly which increases the operator's cost dramatically. With PPSP, P2P cache can detect P2P streaming applications much easier without needing to update its library. This reduces the ISP workload to a large extent. Note that using standard PPSP won't hurt current P2P streaming vendors : Firstly, the openness of signaling interactions makes it easy to integrate them with ISP's caches for better user experience, say, smaller delay of the play. Secondly, the variation in different P2P streaming systems mainly lies in how the chunks are scheduled to transfer rather than how the chunks availability information is exchanged. The latter is the core of PPSP, which is easiest to be open. 3.2. Difficult interactionies in building open streaming delivery infrastructure The future Internet is content-centric [CCN][DONA]because the vast majority of current Internet usage (a "high 90% level of traffic"[Van]) consists of data. Most of the content-centric works are seeking for building an open global content delivery infrastructure,where P2P streaming data delivery is going to account for a large portion. However if current multiple proprietary protocols continue to work, there will exist lots of specific and independent systems to deliver vast of same streaming content. This brings more burdens for identifying and sharing the same contents, increases the storage, forwarding and maintenance cost in the intermediate nodes for repeated content. This will definitely increase the cost of streaming distribution and causes possible congestion in the network. Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 6] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 Consider a case where source vendors cooperate with 3rd party CDN. Such integration is already practiced by UUSee[UUSee], RayV[RayV] and Forcetech[Forcetech]. The effect has been verified to improve the total performance of P2P streaming (e.g., with lower latency) by providing more stable "super peers" and reduce traffic for ISP [CDN+P2P] [RFC 5693].However, there are substantial obstacles for CDN nodes supporting proprietary P2P streaming protocols [HTPT]. Unlike the Web where all kinds of the infrastructure devices have been already equipped with standard HTTP protocol,an open CDN supporting various P2P streaming applications need to understand and keep updated on various protocols. Similar to the cache case, this introduces complexity and deployment cost. With PPSP, CDN nodes can be designed to inter-operate with other devices by only standard protocols, reducing the case by case negotiation between the source providers and CDN providers. Note again that we just focus on the standard data availability information interaction between tracker (maybe hosted by the source provider) and CDN nodes, among CDN nodes. The scheduling of data among CDN nodes keeps intact. The interaction between CDN nodes and user peers can be either client/server communication using HTTP or peer to peer communication using PPSP. 3.3. Difficulties with in mobile and wireless environment Mobility and wireless are becoming increasingly important features in future Internet deployments [GENI], [FIND]. It is predicted that by the end of 2012, the number of mobile Internet users will surpass that of fixed Internet users in China [Statistics]. Mobile streaming has becoming a key offering [MobileTV]. In Korea the number of mobile TV subscriber has reached seventeen millions, accounting for one third of the mobile subscribers. During the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, more than one million users enjoyed mobile TV service. There are more and more studies exploring P2P streaming in mobile and wireless networks[Mobile Streaming1] [Mobile Streaming2] However it's difficult to copy current P2P streaming protocols in mobile and wireless networks. Current protocols are designed mainly for fixed Internet. Although smart handsets are more eligible to be peers with much better bandwidth and higher CPU frequency, larger storage and memory than before, peer selection is more challenging which needs more information to exchange during the tracker/peer and peer/peer communications: First, in mobile and wireless networks, the connections are unsteady, lower and costly(esp. in uplink). The trackers and peers need more information, compared to fixed Internet, like packet loss rate, peer battery status and processing capability for peer selection. Note that not all mobile nodes are eligible to be Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 7] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 peers. The new-added information should help the tracker/peer to make the decision. Second, current practices often use a "bitmap" message to exchange chunk availability among peers/trackers. The message is often of some kilobytes size and relatively frequent to exchange. In the mobile networks, the bandwidth is scarce and a reasonable optimization is to reduce the message size, which maybe requires a new expression on "bitmap". Third, mobility issue. If a peer is moving from one serving gateway (e.g., GGSN) to another, the IP address will be changed. It may affect the on-going connection and transmission between peers. Therefore such information should be reported in time, which is not addressed in current practices. PPSP should investigate these factors for a practical converged network from the beginning of the design. 3.4. Difficulties for resource-constraint tTerminals to run different daemons at the same time Private protocols may require a terminal to install multiple software at the same time. For example a user installs CBox for CCTV programs [CNTV], and PPLive for Japanese and Korean movies [PPLive]. However it may be difficult to install multiple clients in one resource constraint peer like mobile handsets. The limited CPU, storage and memory often limit the total number of installed applications as well as concurrent threads and processes. Note that for many client software, even it's not used by the users right now, the daemon may be invoked to facilitate other peers for free data delivery assistance. Taking storage for example, according to [PPStream][UUSee][PPLive Design], the buffer of each peer's hard disk contributed to the system is at least 1GB. If each mobile peer, like iPhone (version 1) runs 2 such applications at the same time, the storage cannot be shared for different applications and it will consume one fourth of all its storage (8 GB), leaving other data with fewer storage. With PPSP,there is possibility to use one client software to support different applications because the peers can communicate with different trackers/peers with the same protocols and shared buffer( memory and storage). Thus even using different applications at the same time, resource constraint dilemma is largely reduced. The only distinction for different applications lie in different plug-ins (e.g., scheduling algorithms). Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 8] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 4. PPSP:Standard peer to peer streaming protocols The objective of this working group is to design PPSP, unified peer to peer streaming protocols to address the problems discussed in the preceding section. There are basically two kinds of P2P streaming systems, pull-based and push-based. In pull-based P2P streaming systems, a centralized tracker or distributed trackers maintains information about which peers are in which swarms and answers the peers' query on such information with a peer-list. After receiving the message, the peer can connect with the candidates in a swarm, exchange its content availability in its memory or storage (depending on it's real-time or VoD streaming) with other peers and then retrieve for wanted streaming data. The swarm is a mesh topology. Most of the current practices are belonging to this genre. The advantages of pull-based mode are its robustness to the peer churn and acceptable latency for a smooth play. On the other hand, in push-based P2P streaming systems, there is a head node maintaining the topology e.g., a tree. The peers in this topology share the same interest on content. The signaling and data distribution are both based on this topology. For one program or video file, the peer queries the head node for its location to join and the head node replies with a peer-list(maybe with recommended order). After receiving this peer-list, the peer can connect with the candidates for being a node in certain place of the topology and receive the data along this topology without the need of exchanging content availability with its siblings. In this sense the head node is acting as the tracker. The push mode has the advantages of lower latency but the topology is fragile to the peer churn. Few practical systems use this mode. A more practical mode is a hybrid pull-push mode where the peers exchange content availability with its siblings for retrieving unfounded data. To sum up, in essence, there are two important entities in P2P streaming, i.e., trackers and peers in P2P streaming systems. PPSP is targeted to standardize the signaling protocols in this tracker-based architectures for supporting both live and VoD streaming. In live streaming, all peers are interested in the media coming from an ongoing event, which means that all peers share nearly the same streaming content at a given point of time. In live streaming, some peers may store the live media for further distribution, which is known as TSTV (time-shift TV), where the stored media are separated into chunks and distributed in a VoD-like manner. Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 9] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 In VoD, different peers watch different parts of the recorded media content during a past event. In this case, each peer keeps asking other peers which media chunks are stored in which peers, and then gets the required media from certain/selected peers. In detail, PPSP designs a protocol for signaling between trackers and peers (the PPSP "tracker protocol") and a signaling protocol for communication among the peers (the PPSP "peer protocol") as shown in Figure 1. The two protocols enable peers to receive streaming data within the time constraints required by specific content items. The tracker protocol handles the initial and periodic exchange of meta information between trackers and peers, such as peer-list and content information. The peer protocol controls the advertising and exchange of media data between the peers. Note that in the pull mode and hybrid pull-push mode, both tracker protocol and peer protocol can be used; while in the push mode, only tracker protocol is used. What's more, existing protocols should be investigated and evaluated for being reused or extended as the proposed protocols, e.g., HTTP. Considering that there can be a large number of peers, the protocol should consider some lightweight (possibly binary) encoding. Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 10] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 +------------------------------------------------+ | | | +--------------------------------+ | | | Tracker(Head Node) | | | +--------------------------------+ | | | ^ ^ | |Tracker | | Tracker |Tracker | |Protocol| | Procotol |Protocol | | | | | | | V | | | | +---------+ Peer +---------+ | | | Peer |<----------->| Peer | | | +---------+ Protocol +---------+ | | | ^ | | | |Peer | | | |Protocol | | V | | | +---------------+ | | | Peer | | | +---------------+ | | | | | +------------------------------------------------+ Figure 1 PPSP System Architecture Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 11] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 5. Use cases of PPSP 5.1. Worldwide provision of open P2P live streaming services The cooperative vendors can easily expand the broadcasting scale with PPSP. In figure 2 shows the case that vendor A broadcasts the program with the help of vendor B and vendor C for a wider coverage. The interactions between vendor A's tracker and vendor B and vendor C's super-nodes (SN in short) can be normalized using tracker protocol; and peer protocol can be used among SNs/peers spread in different vendors. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | +------------------+ | | +------------>| A's Tracker |<----------+ | | | +------------------+ | | | Tracker| ^ ^ | | | Protocol| Tracker| |Tracker |Tracker | | | Protocol| |Protocol |Protocol | | | | | | | | | | | | | | v v v v | | +------+ Peer +------+ +------+ +------+ | | | B's |<------->| B's | | C's | | C's | | | | SN1 |Protocol | SN2 | | SN1 | | SN2 | | | +------+ +------+ +------+ +------+ | | ^ ^ ^ ^ | | | | | | | | | | Peer Protocol Peer Protocol| | | | Peer | +-------------+ +--------------+ |Peer | | Procotol| | | |protocol| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | v v v v | | +------+ Peer +------+ +---------+ Peer +---------+ | | | A's |<------> | B's | |A's |<------> |C's | | | | User1|Protocol | User2| | User1 |Protocol | User2 | | | +------+ +------+ +---------+ +---------+ | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Figure 2 Cooperative Vendors Interactions Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 12] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 5.2. CDN supporting P2P streaming This scenario is similar to use case 1 except that the intermediate SNs are replaced by 3rd party CDN surrogates with PPSP. The P2P streaming vendors A and B can rent CDN surrogates to provide higher QoS services for VIP users than services provides by only ordinary peers. The interactions among these network entities are shown in Figure 3. The CDN nodes talk with the different trackers and peers with the uniform Tracker and peer protocols. Also it can talk with peers with HTTP if it has complete copy of the requested file. The internal interaction of CDN nodes can be executed by either original internal protocol or new peer protocol. The latter is used when building a new CDN system supporting streaming applications with low cost deploying P2P delivery inside the network. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | +-------------+ +--------------+ | | +----->| A's Tracker | | B's Tracker |<--+ | | | +-------------+ +--------------+ | | | Tracker| ^ ^ ^ ^ | | | Protocol| Tracker| |Tracker | |Tracker |Tracker | | | Protocol| |Protocol| |Protocol |Protocol | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | v v | | v v | | +------+ Peer +------+ | | +------+Internal+------+ | | | CDN |<------->| CDN | | | | CDN |<------>| CDN | | | | Node1|Protocol | Node2| | | | Node3|Protocol| Node4| | | +------+ +------+ | | +------+ +------+ | | ^ ^ | | ^ ^ | | | | | | | | | | | | Peer Protocol | | HTTP | | | | Peer | +-------------+ | | +------+ | Peer | | Procotol| | | | | Protocol |protocol| | | | +--+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | v v v v v v | | +------+ Peer +------+ +---------+ Peer +---------+ | | | A's |<------> | A's | |B's |<------> |B's | | | | User1|Protocol | User2| | User3 |Protocol | User4 | | | +------+ +------+ +---------+ +---------+ | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Figure 3 CDN Supporting P2P Streaming Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 13] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 5.3. PPSP supporting cross-screen streaming in heterogeneous environment In this scenario PC, Setbox/TV and mobile terminals from both fixed network and mobile network share the content they store/cache. Peers from heterogeneous networks With PPSP Peers can identify the types of networks, their load /congestion information, peer abilities and get to know what content other peers have (maybe with the conversion of the content availability expression in different networks) even in different network conditions as shown in Figure 4. These information will play an important role on selecting suitable peers, e.g., a PC or STB node is more likely to be selected to provide stable content for mobile nodes; a mobile peer within a high-load base station is unlikely to be selected, which will lead to higher load on the base station. +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | Tracker Protocol +---------+ Tracker Protocol | | +-------------> | Tracker |<------------------+ | | | +---------+ | | | | ^ | | | | | | | | | | | | | V | V | | +------+ | +------------+ | | | STB | Tracker Protocol |Mobile Phone| | | +------+ | +------------+ | | ^ | ^ | | | | | | | | | | | | | V | | | |Peer Protocol +---------+ Peer Protocol | | | +-------------> | PC |<------------------+ | | +---------+ | | | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ Figure 4 Heterogeneous P2P Streaming Interactions with PPSP 5.4. Supporting P2P streaming in cellular mobile network In a cellular mobile environment like 3G or 4G, with the increase in bandwidth and smart mobile terminal capabilities, P2P (including P2P streaming) is easier to be realized than before. In a provincial network of China Mobile, P2P has accounted for more than 30 percentage of the traffic, ranked second except HTTP. Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 14] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 Note that the mobile terminals are not compulsorily to be peers. Network peers who are deployed by the ISPs or operators and mobile peers with WiFi connections are more likely to be selected. For example, in 3GPP, there is a P2P CDS work item working on the requirement of mobile operators to prefer use deployed network-side equipments (e.g., serving gateways or GGSNs, one access point from cellular mobile network to the Internet) to act as super-peers when there are no enough eligible peers to realize P2P streaming[P2P CDS]. Because they are deployed by the operators, the stability and storage size are better guaranteed than ordinary peers. Similar with case 5.3, PPSP tracker protocol will help to identify and return the super-peers in the peer-list with preference. If mobile terminals are not eligible to be peers, they can simply receive data from these super-peers without contributing any data to others. 5.5. Cache service supporting P2P streaming As discussed in the section3, deploying cache nodes in the network edges can greatly decrease the inter-network traffic and increase user experience in streaming service. With PPSP, the cache nodes can identify the P2P streaming genre even it may include different applications. When a peer requests the streaming data, cache detects the request and requests the frequent visited content (or part of) to the original tracker as a normal peer. The tracker replies with (outward) peers. After the cache connectes with the peers, it can report what it cache to the provider's tracker like a normal peer and serve other requesting peers inside to reduce the cross-ISP traffic as shown in Figure 5. The cache nodes needn't update their library when new applications supporting PPSP are introduced, which enable the cache nodes spend less cost to support more applications. Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 15] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | 0:Tracker Protocol +-----------+ | | +------------------>| Tracker | | | | +-----------+ | | | ^ | | | | | | | 2:| Tracker Protocol | | | | | | | +----------|------------------------------| | | | v | | | | +----------+ | | | +---------|---->| Cache |<----------------+ | | | | | +----------+ 1,4:Tracler/Peer| | | | | | Protcol | | | | | | | | | | |3:Peer | | | | | |Protocol | | | | | | | | | | v v | +-----------+| | +-------------+ | ISP Domain | Inside || | | Outward | | | Peer || | | Peer | | +-----------+| | +-------------+ | | +-----------------------------------------------------------------+ Figure 5 Cache Service Supporting Streaming with PPSP Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 16] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 6. Security Considerations PPSP will not attempt to provide a solution on security and copyright issues like malicious content distribution, content pollution and DRM for a general P2P streaming system. Instead PPSP security involves the security problems related to PPSP protocols. The protocol documents will contain a complete description on the security/privacy issues relevant to any usage of PPSP. 6.1. Tracker Protocol Malicious peers may issue denial of service attack to the trackers by sending large amount of requests with tracker protocol. Distributed trackers deployment may alleviate the problem. On the other hand, malicious peers may report fake information (e.g., cheating trackers and other peers by claiming itself owning some un- existing data). So it may be optional to realize authentication to the peers before accepting the request for the tracker. But this may add up the tracker's workload. In the above discussion tracker is trustful. Things are worse when the malicious peer acts as part of the distributed trackers. The malicious acting tracker may reply the peers with fake peer-list. Peers may find they cannot find desired data with the fake peer-list. 6.2. Peer Protocol Similar to the behavior in the tracker-peer interaction, malicious peers may also create fake information on chunk availability and exchange it with other peers. Some techniques to check the data integrity (e.g., using checksum) may be useful for detecting the data. Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 17] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 7. References [Cisco] Cisco Visual Networking Index: Forecast and Methodology, 2009-2014, http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns7 05/ns827/white_paper_c11- 481360_ns827_Networking_Solutions_White_Paper.html [PPLive] www.pplive.com [VoD]Challenges, Design and Analysis of a Large-scale P2P-VoD System,Yan Huang et al, Sigcomm08. [CNN] www.cnn.com [PPStream] www.ppstream.com [UUSee] www.uusee.com [CNTV] www.cntv.com [Cirrus] labs.adobe.com/technologies/cirrus/ [Akamai] Understanding hybrid CDN-P2P: why limelight needs its own Red Swoosh, C. Huang et al,Proceedings of the 18th International Workshop on Network and Operating Systems Support for Digital Audio and Video, May 28-30, 2008, Braunschweig, Germany. [ChinaCache]www.chinacache.com [ComCast]http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.cfm/2008/05/20/comcast _invests_in_p2p_streaming_startup [CCN] Content-Centric Networking,V. Jacobson, https://wiki.tools.isoc.org/@api/deki/files/2634//=1.vj.isoc.mar10.pd f [DONA]A Data-Oriented (and Beyond) Network Architecture, T. Koponen et al, Sigcomm 2007. 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Marocco; V. Gurbani; R. Even; H. Zhang; C. Schmidt;L. Xiao; C. Williams; V. Pasual; D. Zhang; J. Lei. Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 20] Internet-Draft Problem statement of PPSP July 2011 Authors' Addresses Yunfei Zhang China Mobile Communication Corporation zhangyunfei@chinamobile.com Ning Zong Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. zongning@huawei.com Gonzalo Camarillo Ericsson Gonzalo.Camarillo@ericsson.com James Seng PPLive james.seng@pplive.com Richard Yang Yale University yry@cs.yale.edu Zhang Expires January 4, 2012 [Page 21]