Technical Report V2 Characterization of P2P IPTV Traffic: Scaling Analysis

P2P IPTV applications arise on the Internet and will be massively used in the future. It is expected that P2P IPTV will contribute to increase the overall Internet traffic. In this context, it is important to measure the impact of P2P IPTV on the networks and to characterize this traffic. During the 2006 FIFA World Cup, they performed an extensive measurement campaign. The authors measured network traffic generated by broadcasting soccer games by the most popular P2P IPTV applications, namely PPLive, PPStream, SOPCast and TVAnts. From the collected data, they characterized the P2P IPTV traffic structure at different time scales by using wavelet based transform method.