The focus of this survey is to study the protocols, mechanisms, and the latest standards
proposed in the literature for improving the performance and quality of video content in …

Recently, application-layer overlay networks have been suggested as a promising solution
for live video streaming over the Internet. To organize a multicast overlay, a natural structure …

Recent advancements in network infrastructures provide increased opportunities to support
video delivery over multiple communication paths. However, the high definition (HD) video …

Internet video delivery has been motivating research in multicast routing, quality of service
(QoS), and the service model of the Internet itself for the last 15 years. Multicast delivery has …

Live streaming applications become hugely popular in the Internet era. However, these
applications place tremendous pressure on video servers. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) …

We have implemented and tested an overlay multicast solution with scalability and reliability
that is suitable for a single source live stream distribution such as an IP broadcast service …

The number of live multimedia streaming applications is increasing, explaining the use of
many overlay network topologies. Application-layer multicast (ALM) that it is a feasible …

Multicasting technology uses the minimum network resources to serve multiple clients by
duplicating the data packets at the closest possible point to the clients. This way at most only …

Overlay networks offer promising capabilities for video streaming, due to their support for
application-layer processing at the overlay forwarding nodes. In this paper, we focus on the …

We propose a framework, called overlay subscription network (OSN), for live Internet TV
broadcast, where a subscriber can choose to watch at any time. This framework allows the …