In this paper, we propose a simple and fully distributed mechanism for constructing and maintaining the overlay topology in mesh-based P2P-TV systems. Our algorithm optimizes the ...
Richard John Lobb, Ana Paula Couto da Silva, Emili...
—Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems gain much attention in recent years. According to many statistics, P2P systems contribute a significant portion of the Internet traffic. Individual In...
Policy rules define what behavior is desired in a softwarebased system, they do not describe the corresponding action and event sequences that actually “produce” desired (“...
Systems that use or serve multimedia data require timely access to data on hard drives. To ensure adequate performance users must either prevent overload of disk resources, or use...
A key challenge faced by peer-to-peer(P2P) video-on- demand (VoD) systems is their ability, or lack thereof, to provide DVD-like functionality, such as pause, forward and backward ...