METHOD AND END POINT FOR DISTRIBUTING LIVE CONTENT STREAM IN A CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK

摘要

The method comprises the management and delivery of a requested live stream using a P2P-based architecture, where peers exchanging content with one another are end points of a CDN. The delivery of the requested live stream to one or more end users is performed from one or more of said end points. The requested live stream is split into segments that the serving end points, preferably, obtains from neighbouring end points and/or from the origin server of the live stream using a scheduling algorithm and depending on the availability of segments thereof. The end point is designed for implementing the method of the invention.