[gst-devel] Summer of Code Idea: P2P Streaming System

[Manuel Alejandro Cerón Estrada]

Hello.

I want to participate in the Google Summer of Code this year. I have
an Idea, but I'm not sure which mentoring organization would be the
most appropriate. I would like to ask you what do you thing about this
project and if you think is suited for GStreamer.

I want to develop a streaming media system based on a peer-to-peer
network. The motivation is to solve the problem of high bandwidth
usage in current unicast media streaming servers based on a
client-server architecture. Using a P2P network, where every node is
both a server and a client is possible to distribute the bandwidth
usage among the whole network. This approach is already used by file
distribution systems like Bittorrent. I want to adapt the same idea
for a live content media streaming system.

Currently, there are various P2P media streaming systems. Only few of
them are open source, but they are based on simple, inefficient, tree
topology. I want to build a system based on mesh topology and
swarming. There are various recent papers with architecture proposals
for this.

I'm working on this topic for my theses/graduation project. In my
project I will work with simulations, but I thought that it would be
great if I could implement a real system and test it. Summer of Code
is a great opportunity for this, I participated the last year and I
had a lot of fun. If you're interested I can show you the  project
proposal I send to my University, It's in Spanish, but I can translate
it. It details the current state of the art of p2p streaming systems
as well as architecture proposals for new systems.

For this project, I want to use GStreamer, Python,  C (if necessary)
and Twisted. This tools are the same used by Flumotion, maybe I can
work with that project in some way.

Thanks in advance for your comments.


Manuel Alejandro Cerón Estrada
http://ceronman.freaks-unidos.net