Abstract
For peer-to-peer (P2P) media streaming systems, one of the critical issues is to discover suitable supplying peers which can provide required media segments to the requesting peer. Through a simulation-based study, OBN [4] is shown to be a promising mechanism for finding streaming suppliers. OBN presents a special peering structure and corresponding routing approach for efficient supplier discovery in an on-demand P2P media streaming system. We examine the feasibility of OBN by realizing it on top of PlanetLab [1]. This thesis contributes on further OBN system design and implementation which take into account the additional requirements imposed by the real network environment.