Given the growth on the number of Internet users and the quality of their connections, building large Internet live broadcasts has become increasingly challenging. This paper introduces the use of WebRTC peer-to-peer technology to analyze a hybrid CDN-P2P structure in order to decrease the number of requests to CDN servers, reducing the cost of transmission and enhancing system’s scalability.
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