European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), STREP

Politecnico di Torino
Università di Trento
LightComm Srl
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
France Télécom R&D
Budapest University of Technology and Economics
NETvisor Ltd.
Magyar Telekom
NEC Europe Ltd.
Warsaw University of Technology
Telekomunikacja Polska S.A.

February 2008 to January 2011

TV services over the Internet can be provided either exploiting IP multicast functionalities or relying on a pure end-to-end (P2P) approach. The first technique unfortunately, will only work on a network infrastructure controlled by a single broadband operator due to limitations of IP multicast facilities. On the contrary, the P2P approach has been successfully exploited to overcome these limits and can potentially offer a scalable planetary infrastructure. Recently, several P2P-TV systems started to show up, with the last generation offering High Quality TV (P2P-HQTV) systems, providing a ubiquitous access to the service. These same potentialities of P2P-TV systems constitute a worry for network carriers since the traffic they generate may potentially grow without control, causing a degradation of quality of service perceived by Internet users or even the network collapse. Starting from these considerations the NAPA-WINE project, funded by the European Commission within the seventh framework programme, aims at: (1) providing a careful analysis of the impact that a large deployment of both general P2P-TV and P2P-HQTV services may have on the Internet, through an in detailed characterization of the traffic they generate; (2) providing guidelines for P2P-TV developers regarding the design of systems that minimize the impact on the underlying transport network while optimizing the user perceived quality; (3) providing a road map for Internet Service Providers to better exploit the network bandwidth by showing simple and minimum cost actions that can be taken in presence of P2P-TV traffic.

NEC will contribute to the NAPA-WINE project on topics related to the network awareness of peer-to-peer applications, using the overlay management and the associated signalling protocols for setting up the peer-to-peer overlay. NEC will also participate in the integration of the software towards the building of a prototype as outcome of the project and to the evaluation of the above mentioned by means of performance evaluation. Furthermore, NEC is leading the standardization within the NAPA-WINE project and is also leader of the dissemination and standardization work package.

E. Leonardi, M. Mellia, A. Horvath, L. Muscariello, S. Niccolini, D. Rossi: Building a Cooperative P2P-TV Application over a Wise Network: the approach of the European FP7 STREP NAPA-WINE. IEEE Communications Magazine. April 2008.

M. Stiemerling, S. Niccolini, S. Kiesel, J. Seedorf: A Network Cooperative Overlay System. IETF P2P-I workshop. May 28th. Cambridge, MA, USA

Official NAPA-WINE Web Site