Welcome to the Open Source P2P Streaming (OSPS) wiki home page!

The goal of the OSPS experiment is demonstrating that Community Networks can support advanced multimedia services such as real-time video and TV distribution. The study of efficient video streaming techniques on Community Networks is not only a challenging and timely research topic but its result will also leave to the community a new service to increase the value of the network and better serve the community.

This project focuses on PeerStreamer, an open source P2P Media Streaming framework written in C, developed as part of the NAPA-WINE European research project. It includes a streaming engine for the efficient distribution of media streams, a source application for the creation of channels and a player applications to visualize the streams.

OSPS will produce a stable version of the application tailored for Community Networks that will remain available to users and to CONFINE in particular.

The project is developed and maintained by the SAN group of DISI in the University of Trento, coordinated by Renato Lo Cigno.

• Development branches
  • Networking layer improvements
  • Radio streaming (in collaboration with Radio Helsinki)
  • VLC video plugin
  • Video conference application
  • PeerStreamer Web GUI
• Performed experiments
• Published Results
  • Baldesi, L., L. Maccari, and R. Lo Cigno, “Improving P2P Streaming in Community-Lab Through Local Strategies,”, 10th IEEE International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), Larnaca, Cyprus, IEEE, October, 2014.
  • Baldesi, L.; Maccari, L.; Lo Cigno, R., “Live P2P streaming in CommunityLab: Experience and insights,” Ad Hoc Networking Workshop (MED-HOC-NET), 2014 13th Annual Mediterranean , vol., no., pp.23,30, 2-4 June 2014 Slides
  • Maccari, L., “An analysis of the Ninux wireless community network,” Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob), 2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1,7, 7-9 Oct. 2013 Related Code
• News
  • 6 August 2013: Wireless Community Network Analysis code made available.
  • 1 August 2013: ML net helper is now IP version agnostic.
  • 18 July 2013: OSPS new wiki available!
  • 17 September 2013: video conference notes available
  • 15 January 2014: experiments data update
  • 4 June 2014: experiments results presented at MedHocNet'14
  • 19 March 2015: update of the publication list