Libswift: 4th generation P2P engine inside a TV

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• published: 27 Mar 2012
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Now P2P is ready for your television... Television could become more interesting with more content in higher quality. Cost is also saved with our technology, as popular videos can now be cached inside The Internet. Our technology revolves around Libswift. It also brings video to other devices. For instance, if you have an Android smartphone, just search for the free "Libswift" app. Libswift is a lean, but still full-featured 4th generation P2P engine. It supports streaming and uses only a minimum of resources. The novel protocol we developed is selected to become an official IETF Internet Standard. Website: http://Libswift.org Source code: https://github.com/triblerteam IETF standard draft: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ppsp-peer-protocol/ Technical documentation: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/83/slides/slides-83-ppsp-0.pdf Industrial Usage: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/83/slides/slides-83-ppsp-4.pdf Scientific report: http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/fileadmin/pds/reports/2011/PDS-2011-006.pdf Funding source: http://cordis.europa.eu/projects/rcn/85326_en.html ======================================================== Press Release ======================================================== At a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in Paris this week, the possibilities of a new internet standard, developed at Delft University of Technology, will be demonstrated. The IETF has shown interest to move it forward and make it an official "Internet standard". According to dr. Johan Pouwelse of Delft University of Technology, the new standard could make the internet more powerful, cheaper and faster. 'The standard way of how computers should talk was defined in 1974 by the founding fathers of the Internet. The Internet has changed dramatically since that time and not all assumptions of the old days are still valid. Hence the potential for an improvement',  says dr. Johan Pouwelse, researcher at Delft University of Technology and technical director of the P2P-Next consortium, a 19 million euro project into the future of so-called P2P (Peer-to-Peer) technology. 'Cardinal change from the old days, is that over 90% of all Internet traffic consists of downloading or streaming of static content', says Pouwelse. 'On Wednesday March 28th, at the IETF meeting in Paris, we will demonstrate applications of our new internet standard. A smart phone, television, tablet and laptop will be presented which all use the new technology from Delft.' 'This standard, which is still in the trial stage, not only promises to make the Internet cheaper and faster, but potentially also unlocks new powerful possibilities. If this standard is officially adopted by the IETF and becomes a success, it could for instance 're-invent' television. In theory everybody could become a TV-reporter with millions of live followers; straight from their smartphone camera.' For many years scientists tried to use Internet technology to deliver on-demand television. Delft is proud that they achieved a world first: running 4th generation P2P Engine inside a flatscreen TV itself. This is made possible through a lean implementation of the standard called: Libswift.