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...
With BitTorrent-like protocols a client may download a file from a large and changing set of peers, using connections of heterogeneous and timevarying bandwidths. This flexibility ...
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
— BitTorrent (BT) in the last years has been one of the most effective mechanisms for P2P content distribution. Although BT was created for distribution of time insensitive conte...
—Broadcasting of media events is a real-time action demanding reliable just in time decisions based on the current content of incoming video streams and the availability of backg...