fybrrStream: A WebRTC based Efficient and Scalable P2P Live Streaming Platform
It addresses the need for scalable and efficient live streaming services for users and providers, though it appears incremental as it builds on existing P2P and hybrid approaches.
The paper tackles the problem of low-cost, high-quality live streaming by proposing fybrrStream, a P2P platform using a hybrid topology, which achieves performance comparable to state-of-the-art services and shows significant improvements in real-field experiments with 50+ users.
The demand for streaming media and live video conferencing is at peak and expected to grow further, thereby the need for low-cost streaming services with better quality and lower latency is essential. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a novel peer-to-peer (P2P) live streaming platform, called fybrrStream, where a logical mesh and physical tree i.e., hybrid topology-based approach is leveraged for low latency streaming. fybrrStream distributes the load on participating peers in a hierarchical manner by considering their network bandwidth, network latency, and node stability. fybrrStream costs as low as the cost of just hosting a light-weight website and the performance is comparable to the existing state-of-the-art media streaming services. We evaluated and tested the proposed fybrrStream platform with real-field experiments using 50+ users spread across India and results obtained show significant improvements in the live streaming performance over other schemes.