With recent advances in digital media acquisition, storage, communication and networking
technologies, multime-dia has become an indispensable feature in our daily lives …

For more than a decade, content providers have been trying to deliver multimedia content to
end users via the Internet. Before the introduction of streaming technology, users needed to …

The growing interest in Internet has resulted in an increasing deployment of parallel and
distributed applications over wide area environments. While the traditional client-server …

Abstract Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems have emerged as a large-scale, distributed platform for
resource sharing that offers cost effectiveness, increased autonomy, scalability, and …

Welcome to the special issue of Peer-to-Peer Networking and Applications. This issue
contains a collection of the best papers out of various authors who have been submitted to …

The growth of the Internet has led to research and development of several new and useful
applications including video streaming. Commercial experiments are underway to determine …

ADVANCES in computers, networking, and communica-tions have created new distribution
channels and business opportunities for the dissemination of multimedia content. Streaming …

Peer-to-peer networking is a disruptive technology for large scale distributed app-cations
that has recently gained wide interest due to the successes of peer-to-peer (P2P) content …

We are witnessing a paradigm shift in the design of internet scale distributed systems, with
peer-to-peer (P2P) communication playing an important role. For large scale content …

The Internet as a video distribution medium has seen a tremendous growth in recent years.
Currently, the transmission of major live events and TV channels over the Internet can easily …