Providing Incentives in P 2 P Adaptive Streaming

Adaptive streaming, such as Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), has been widely deployed to provide uninterrupted video streaming service to users with dynamic network conditions. In this report, we analytically study the potential of using P2P in conjunction with adaptive streaming. Our focus is on how to provide incentives in P2P adaptive streaming. We first study P2P adaptive streaming under a taxation framework. Then we develop more general pricing mechanisms for P2P adaptive streaming using cooperative game theory.