— A number of large-scale distributed Internet applications could potentially benefit from some level of knowledge about the relative proximity between its participating host no...
Sylvia Ratnasamy, Mark Handley, Richard M. Karp, S...
Building a topology-aware peer-to-peer overlay network can bring many advantages, such as providing locality-aware connectivity and reducing routing path length. While its benefit...
Abstract— On-demand and live multimedia streaming applications (such as Internet TV) are well known to utilize a significant amount of bandwidth from media streaming servers, es...
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...
Estimating distances in the Internet has been studied in the recent years due to its ability to improve the performance of many applications, e.g., in the peer-topeer realm. One sc...