Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing has become increasingly popular, accounting for as much as 70% of Internet traffic by some estimates. Recently, we have been witnessing the emergen...
With the improvement of network bandwidth, multimedia services based on streaming live media have gained much attention recently, among which IPTV has become a hot topic. After em...
Incentive mechanisms are essential components of peer-topeer systems for file sharing such as BitTorrent, since they enforce peers to share their resources and to participate. Re...
Thomas Silverston, Olivier Fourmaux, Jon Crowcroft
Abstract--To effectively address the explosive growth of multimedia applications over the Internet, a large-scale media streaming system has to fully take into account the issues o...
In this paper, we present a solution that incorporates BitTorrent mechanism into P2P streaming. In our solution, several modifications have been incorporated into BitTorrent to sup...