Efficient User Authentication and Key Management for Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming Systems

Recent development of the peer-to-peer(P2P)live streaming technique has brought unprecedented new momentum to the Internet with the characters of effective,scalable,and low cost.However,before these applications can be successfully deployed as commercial applications,efficient access control mechanisms are needed.This work based on earlier research of the secure streaming architecture in Trust-Stream, analyzes how to ensure that only authorized users can access the original media in the P2P live streamin...