Network Coding for Streaming Video over P2P Networks

In this contribution we simulate network coding and evaluate its benefits for streaming video over P2P networks. Network coding has emerged as a promise technique in the information theory field. This novel technique has shown several benefits in the communication networks related to throughput, security and resources optimization. In this work, we implement network coding for a multi-source P2P scenario. The video is encoded in the sources, while the intermediate nodes implement network coding before forwarding the encoded packets to the end nodes. The received packets are decoded in each receiving peer in order to recovery the original video. Our scheme is implemented under the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compression standard and using the network simulator (NS-2). We evaluate our scheme in terms of overall throughput, packet loss and video quality. Results show that these parameters can be improved in P2P video streaming systems by using network coding.