Measuring PPLive by setting up a couple clients and trace the packets by passive sniffing. Following information are harvested: (1) Diurnal and weekly trend; (2) Peer arrival and departures, i.e. flash crowd; (3) geographic distribution; (4) overheads of content; (5) redundancy; (6) upload-download ratio; (7) live time of each connections made; (8) number of peers, their dynamic and locality; (9) buffering and playback quality
Bibliographic data
@article{
title = "A Measurement Study of a Large-Scale P2P IPTV System",
author = "Xiaojun Hei and Chao Liang and Jian Liang and Yong Liu and Keith W. Ross",
journal = "IEEE T. of Multimedia",
volume = "9",
number = "8",
year = "2007",
}