PULSE (P2PTV)

Initial release| 2007

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Available in| English
Type| P2PTV

PULSE is a P2PTV application developed by the European FP7 NAPA-WINE (Network-Aware P2P-TV Application over Wise Networks) research consortium.

PULSE stands for Peer-to-Peer Unstructured Live Streaming Experiment and is a peer-to-peer live streaming system designed to operate in scenarios where the bandwidth resources of nodes can be highly heterogeneous and variable over time, as is the case for the Internet.

## History

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The principles and basic algorithms of PULSE were proposed by Fabio Pianese. [1] The prototype was developed by Diego Perino [2] and released with a LGPL Software License. The development has been taken over by the NAPA-WINE consortium in 2008, and version 0.2.2 can be downloaded via anonymous svn from the NAPA-WINE website.[3]

## P2PMyLive

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In 2009, PULSE introduced P2PMyLive,[4] where content providers can announce their streaming. Either the source or the participant can use the same graphical front-end to the pulse engine, which is available for Windows and Linux Ubuntu. Live streaming can be performed without any restriction.

## See also

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* P2PTV
* PeerStreamer (from NAPA-WINE too, first released in 2011).

## References

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1. ^ Fabio Pianese PULSE - An Adaptive Practical Live Streaming System PhD Thesis, Université de Nice - Sophia Antipolis, December 2007
2. ^ Diego Perino The Pulse System - A new p2p prototype for live streaming MSc Thesis, Institut Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, September 2006
3. ^ PULSE page on the NAPA-WINE consortium website Archived 2009-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
4. ^ P2PMyLive web site Archived 2013-01-22 at archive.today