Content providers base their business on their ability to receive and answer requests from clients distributed across the Internet. Since disruptions in the flow of these request...
The early peer-to-peer applications eschewed commercial arrangements and instead established a grass-roots model in which the collection of end-users provided their own distribute...
This paper considers the problem of adapting the BitTorrent protocol for on-demand streaming. BitTorrent is a popular peer-to-peer file sharing protocol that efficiently accommodat...
In this paper we analyze a novel paradigm of reliable communication which is not based on the traditional timeout-andretransmit mechanism of TCP. Our approach, which we call Fount...
The evolution of the Internet towards a global infrastructure for real time voice and video applications involves providing stringent Quality of Service (QoS) levels. Although som...