Method and system for providing streaming content in a peer-to-peer network with network coding

摘要

A system, method, and computer-readable medium distributing streaming media content to clients in a peer-to-peer network. A streaming source divides the streaming media content into a plurality of data segments of equal length. A request from a peer client is received for at least a portion of the streaming media content. A subset of the plurality of data segments by a linear network coding routine is encoded into an encoded data block. The encoded data block is sent to the peer client.