摘要:
The present invention relates to use of a circular buffer used by a peer in a multimedia streaming service based on peer-to-peer (P2P), and an operating method thereof. A circular buffer of the present invention may include a buffering section to process a delayed data fragment transmission request from at least one peer present in a network according to a playback of a multimedia content, a storing section to store data to be provided to the at least one peer, a continuous storing section in which data fragments for the playback of the multimedia content are stored in serial order, and a discontinuous storing section in which a space for a received data fragment to be shared with the at least one peer is reserved and a space for a data fragment to be received is reserved.
摘要:
Disclosed is a method for receiving a multimedia content between peers on a peer-to-peer network, including: establishing a neighbor connection relationship which is a relationship to interactively transmit and receive the multimedia content, with the other peer on the peer-to-peer network; establishing a donator connection relationship to receive the multimedia content from the other peer, based on a donator approval request message transmitted to the other peer; receiving a multimedia content piece related message from the other peer based on the established donator connection relationship; and receiving a required multimedia content piece from the other peer according to a result of parsing the multimedia content piece related message.