Distributed Video Streaming over DHT P2P Overlays

Despite the recent popularity of P2P file sharing strategies, on-demand video streaming have traditionally employed client-server type architectures or else multicast trees as the primary methods to address its difficulties. In this paper, we present DistVid, a protocol that combines the features of multicast trees and structured P2P overlays with the goal of providing a frame work for on-demand video streaming that is both resilient to failure and able to maximize available bandwidth.