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An important issue in network traffic management for Internet service providers is how to efficiently handle a large amount of data traffic generated by peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. This paper discusses the efficiency of P2P video streaming in time-division-multiplexed (TDM) passive optical networks (PONs). We summarize the technical requirements that are required to efficiently serve P2P video streaming in the broadcast-and-select architecture of the TDM-PON. The proposed localized multicast-based P2P (LM-P2P) mechanism controls generation of P2P sessions adaptively based on information about the peer location and multicast efficiency in the optical line termination (OLT) domain. The centralized control node of LM-P2P selects a multicast seeder and recommends it to later clients as a seeder so that the amount of P2P streaming traffic can be minimized both in the inter-OLT domain and in the intra-OLT domain. The efficiency of LM-P2P in allocation of network resources is achieved by optimal migration of the property of P2P streaming on the unique architectural feature of TDM-PON. The efficiencies of typical P2P localization and P2P caching are compared with LM-P2P, and the systematic issues in localization of P2P sessions and management of multicast sessions are also discussed. The efficiencies of the proposed mechanism are validated by numerical analysis and practical test results.