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In the current costly and limited cloud-based MPL system, which is faced with scalability problem, we find: (1) the long content uploading distances between broadcasters and cloud ingesting servers result in an impaired system QoS, including a high broadcast latency and a frequently buffering events; and (2) most of the broadcasters in MPL are geographically locally popular (the majority of the views come from the same region of the broadcaster), which consume vast computation and bandwidth resources of the clouds and Content Delivery Networks. Fortunately, the emergence of edge computing, which provides cloud-computing capabilities at the edge of the mobile network, naturally sheds new light on the MPL system; i.e., localized ingesting, transcoding, and delivering locally popular live content is possible. Based on these critical observations, we propose an edge-assisted MPL system that collaboratively utilizes the core-cloud and abundant edge computing resources to improve the system efficiency and scalability. In our framework, we consider a dynamic broadcaster assignment to minimize the broadcast latency while keeping the resource lease cost low. We formulate the broadcaster scheduling as a stable matching with migration problem to solve it effectively. 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