Welcome to the Pulse Website!

Pulse is an acronym for Peer-to-peer Unstructured Live Streaming Experiment.

The goal of this project is finding a solution to the issues with traditional server-based live media streaming, and especially:

PULSE is now developped within the NAPA-WiNe european project, which will provide new releases of the code. See the Web page for updates or look at the SVN repository!

Scope - The media broadcasting system will be accessible by anyone connected to the Internet, both as the source and/or as a receiver of some stream

Affordability - Originating a world-scale broadcast will not require enormous costs in hardware and connectivity, but could be done with standard equipment and network access

Scalability - The two preceding points will be true regardless of the number of spectators to the broadcast, since the system will adapt its capacity to the load by itself

If you are interested in the theory behind PULSE, please check the publications page.

NEWS (2007-03-14): First public alpha release of the PULSE prototype code!

PULSE is a research project at the France Telecom Research and Development Division (Orange Labs)