| 摘要 |
<p>A method of optimising data streaming in a peer-to-peer architecture that comprises a plurality of clients in a chain, a peer-to-peer data streaming system having such architecture, and a client terminal for use in that system. Each client, except the last client in the chain, monitors its own bandwidth, informs a succeeding client in the chain of that bandwidth, compares its own bandwidth with the bandwidth of a preceding client in the chain and, in response to a difference between the compared bandwidths, reorders its position among the clients in the chain. The chain thus dynamically reorganises itself to stream data more efficiently and with higher, more reliable throughput, reducing the processing power necessary to stream the data and enabling higher quality to be achieved compared to the existing essentially client/server internet infrastructure. This approach also solves the 'bottle-neck' problem within the cascaded streaming path by continuously organising the participating terminals into the most efficient configuration, without interrupting the streamed data. <IMAGE></p> |
