Hareesh. K¹ and Manjaiah D. H², ¹Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, India and ²Mangalore University, India

P2P media streaming and file downloading is most popular applications over the Internet. These systems reduce the server load and provide a scalable content distribution. P2P networking is a new paradigm to build distributed applications. It describes the design requirements for P2P media streaming, live and Video on demand system comparison based on their system architecture. In this paper we described and studied the traditional approaches for P2P streaming systems, design issues, challenges, and current approaches for providing P2P VoD services.

Video on demand (VoD), Peer to Peer (P2P), Live streaming