Packet loss consideration of P2P-based VoD system with interleaved video frame distribution

Following the advancement in digital technology and broadband communication technology, video streaming service has become an essential one for next generation Internet. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network structure is widely employed for video streaming applications due to its flexible extensibility and ability to share data stream loading among different peer nodes. This paper considers the problems of network packet loss and native peer random leave in P2P network environment. An XOR-based frame loss protection scheme is proposed based on the recently proposed interleaved video frame distribution (IVFD) P2P architecture to mitigate the effect of peer leave and network packet loss. The proposed scheme is not only able to recover the network packet loss, but also able to resist the peer leaving churn. Analysis reveals that the proposed scheme has 43% performance improvement than no frame loss protection in term of frame loss rate.