Abstract— Peer-to-peer video streaming has been gaining popularity. However, it is still challenging to manage a P2P system efficiently to support high video playback rate. In t...
—Two of the fundamental problems in peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming are as follows: what is the maximum streaming rate that can be sustained for all receivers, and what peering algo...
Shao Liu, Minghua Chen, Sudipta Sengupta, Mung Chi...
This paper provides a brief overview of recent progress of peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies for multimedia applications. We provide an overview of the technical challenges, creativ...
We consider streaming video content over an overlay network of peer nodes. Each of the nodes employs a mesh-pull mechanism to organize the download of data units from its neighbou...
This paper presents a cost-effective peer-to-peer (P2P) architecture for large-scale on-demand media streaming, named BitVampire. BitVampire's primary design goal is to aggreg...