  The demand for streaming media and live video conferencing is at peak and
expected to grow further, thereby the need for low-cost streaming services with
better quality and lower latency is essential. Therefore, in this paper, we
propose a novel peer-to-peer (P2P) live streaming platform, called fybrrStream,
where a logical mesh and physical tree i.e., hybrid topology-based approach is
leveraged for low latency streaming. fybrrStream distributes the load on
participating peers in a hierarchical manner by considering their network
bandwidth, network latency, and node stability. fybrrStream costs as low as the
cost of just hosting a light-weight website and the performance is comparable
to the existing state-of-the-art media streaming services. We evaluated and
tested the proposed fybrrStream platform with real-field experiments using 50+
users spread across India and results obtained show significant improvements in
the live streaming performance over other schemes.
