PULSE is a
P2PTV application developed by the
European FP7 NAPA-WINE (Network-Aware P2P-TV Application over Wise Networks) research consortium.
PULSE stands for ''Peer-to-Peer Unstructured Live Streaming Experiment'' and is a
peer-to-peer
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live streaming system designed to operate in scenarios where the
bandwidth resources of nodes can be highly heterogeneous and variable over time, as is the case for the
Internet
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.
History
The principles and basic algorithms of PULSE were proposed by Fabio Pianese.
The prototype was developed by Diego Perino
and released with a
LGPL
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Software License.
The development has been taken over by the NAPA-WINE consortium in 2008, and version 0.2.2 can be downloaded via anonymous
svn from the
NAPA-WINE website.
P2PMyLive
In 2009, PULSE introduced P2PMyLive,
P2PMyLive web site
where content providers can announce their streaming. Either the source or the participant can use the same graphical front-end to the pulse engine, which is available for Windows and Linux Ubuntu. Live streaming can be performed without any restriction.
See also
* P2PTV
* PeerStreamer (from NAPA-WINE too, first released in 2011).
References
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Streaming television
Distributed algorithms
Peercasting
Peer-to-peer software