E2E blocking probability of

IPTV and P2PTV

Yue Lu, Fernando Kuipers, Piet Van Mieghem Milena Janic

Delft University of Technology TNO ICT
The Netherlands The Netherlands

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 IPTV and P2PTV architectures

user

DSLAM
Edge
router

IP network
operator
Program
sources

Internet

IPTV P2PTV

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Which is “better”?

Compare IPTV and P2PTV

• Customers: IPTV or P2PTV?

• Operators: IPTV or switch to P2PTV?

Quality of Experience (view of users):

• E2E Blocking Probability (worst case)

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 Our Model of IPTV
Considered

Backbone User 1
routing edge router One link with capacity C

one domain
Data center

DSLAM
U 2
Router k

…
Us Blocking :

M
Request for channel i

LA

…
DS
is blocked.
…
Causes:
M
LA

1. DSLAM
DS

…
(DSL Access Multiplexer)
One Channel Another Channel 2. Link capacity C
(more popular)

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IPTV Case study

• Architecture: IP-Layer multicast.

• Channel popularity: From Market Report

• Amount of users:
¾ 500,000 subscribers
¾ 41% active in rush hours
¾ 1200 DSLAMs

• User bandwidth: 2.5Mb/s

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 Blocking Results of IPTV case study
-1
10

-2
10

-3
blocking probability B(i)

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-4
10

-5
10

-6
10
K=170,Q=400,s=171
-7 K=82,Q=400,s=171 K: # of channels
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K=170,Q=600,s=171 s: # of users/DSLAM
K=170,Q=400,s=205
-8 Q: traffic intensity
10
1 10 100
channel index i
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 Capacity Results of IPTV case study
180
B=10-7

160
B=10-5
needed capacity C (Mb/s)

140
B=10-3

120

100

80
B: E2E blocking
60 Probability in IPTV
1 10 100
channel index i
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 Our Model of P2PTV
Channel i

Ni
Parent u
|P | M
1 2
b wup Blocking :
Next 1-s not available
Other children
Other children when the current 1-s ends.
bw[1, U ]

user U Causes:
Current Next 1 second 1. Chunks unavailability
1 second Next R chunks
2. Parent upload band
r
3. Parent leaves
downloading
displaying at the same time

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P2PTV Case study

• SopCast

• Measurements on PlanetLab

• What measurements?
¾ Bandwidth usage
¾ Parent distribution and children distribution
¾ QoE

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 Results of P2PTV case study
0.35
K=170, Q=60, N=205200
K=50, Q=60, N=205200
K=170, Q=600, N=205200
0.3
K=170, Q=60, N=2200000
blocking probability b(i)

0.25

0.2

0.15
K: # channels
N: # of users
Q: traffic intensity
0.1
0 10 100
channel index i
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IPTV vs. P2PTV

• Currently: P2PTV has higher blocking than IPTV.

• When num of users increases:

P2PTV will outperform IPTV.

• For Dutch IPTV case and SopCast P2PTV case

Turning point at 297,600 users

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Summary of our Contribution

• New models for IPTV and P2PTV.

• New formulae for E2E blocking probability.

• Two case studies: (1) Dutch IPTV (2) SopCast.

• The E2E blocking of IPTV and P2PTV are compared.

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