Swarm: Cost-Efficient Video Content Distribution with a Peer-to-Peer System
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| author | Wei, Dehui Zhang, Jiao Li, Haozhe Xue, Zhichen Peng, Yajie Pang, Xiaofei Han, Rui Ma, Yan Li, Jialin |
| author_facet | Wei, Dehui Zhang, Jiao Li, Haozhe Xue, Zhichen Peng, Yajie Pang, Xiaofei Han, Rui Ma, Yan Li, Jialin |
| contents | As ByteDance's business expands, the substantial infrastructure expenses associated with centralized Content Delivery Network (CDN) networks have rendered content distribution costs prohibitively high. In response, we embarked on exploring a peer-to-peer (P2P) network as a promising solution to alleviate the escalating costs of content distribution. However, the decentralized nature of P2P often introduces performance challenges, given the diversity and dispersion of peer devices. This study introduces Swarm, ByteDance's innovative hybrid system for video streaming. Swarm seamlessly integrates the robustness of a conventional CDN with the cost-efficiency of a decentralized P2P network. Its primary aim is to provide users with reliable streaming quality while minimizing traffic expenses. To achieve this, Swarm employs a centralized control plane comprised of a tracker cluster, overseeing a data plane with numerous edge residual resources. The tracker also takes on the responsibility of mapping clients to servers. Addressing the performance disparities among individual peer servers, Swarm utilizes our proprietary multipath parallel transmission method for communication between clients and peer servers. Operating stably for six years, Swarm now manages over a hundred thousand peer servers, serving nearly a hundred million users daily and saving the company hundreds of millions of RMB annually. Experimental results affirm that, while significantly cutting costs, Swarm performs on par with traditional CDNs. |
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| spellingShingle | Swarm: Cost-Efficient Video Content Distribution with a Peer-to-Peer System Wei, Dehui Zhang, Jiao Li, Haozhe Xue, Zhichen Peng, Yajie Pang, Xiaofei Han, Rui Ma, Yan Li, Jialin Networking and Internet Architecture As ByteDance's business expands, the substantial infrastructure expenses associated with centralized Content Delivery Network (CDN) networks have rendered content distribution costs prohibitively high. In response, we embarked on exploring a peer-to-peer (P2P) network as a promising solution to alleviate the escalating costs of content distribution. However, the decentralized nature of P2P often introduces performance challenges, given the diversity and dispersion of peer devices. This study introduces Swarm, ByteDance's innovative hybrid system for video streaming. Swarm seamlessly integrates the robustness of a conventional CDN with the cost-efficiency of a decentralized P2P network. Its primary aim is to provide users with reliable streaming quality while minimizing traffic expenses. To achieve this, Swarm employs a centralized control plane comprised of a tracker cluster, overseeing a data plane with numerous edge residual resources. The tracker also takes on the responsibility of mapping clients to servers. Addressing the performance disparities among individual peer servers, Swarm utilizes our proprietary multipath parallel transmission method for communication between clients and peer servers. Operating stably for six years, Swarm now manages over a hundred thousand peer servers, serving nearly a hundred million users daily and saving the company hundreds of millions of RMB annually. Experimental results affirm that, while significantly cutting costs, Swarm performs on par with traditional CDNs. |
| title | Swarm: Cost-Efficient Video Content Distribution with a Peer-to-Peer System |
| topic | Networking and Internet Architecture |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.15839 |