Content distribution in a P2P infrastructure by means of multicast connections

摘要

A control server (CTS) is intended for controlling content distribution to peers (P1-P4) coupled to a communication network (CN) which comprises at least one content serving means (CNS, N1-N3) storing contents. This control server (CTS) is arranged i) for transmitting messages to these peers (P1-P4) to inform them that a content will soon be distributed by means of an identified multicast session, and to identify content parts that have been respectively associated to them, and ii) for ordering at least one content serving means (CNS) to initiate this identified multicast session to transmit the content to the peers (P1-P4), in order those having decided to listen to the multicast session store the content parts that have been identified into their respective messages.