P2P file downloading and streaming have already become very popular Internet
applications. These systems dramatically reduce the server loading, and provide a platform …

Federation of geo-distributed cloud services is a trend in cloud computing that, by spanning
multiple data centers at different geographical locations, can provide a cloud platform with …

Live media streaming has become one of the most popular applications over the Internet.
We have witnessed the successful deployment of commercial systems with CDN-or peer-to …

Internet-based cloud computing is a new computing paradigm aiming to provide agile and
scalable resource access in a utility-like fashion. Other than being an ideal platform for …

In recent years there have been several large-scale deployments of P2P live video systems.
Existing and future P2P live video systems will offer a large number of channels, with users …

The recent three years have witnessed an explosion of networked video sharing,
represented by YouTube, as a new killer Internet application. Their sustainable development …

In a public cloud, bandwidth is traditionally priced in a pay-as-you-go model. Reflecting the
recent trend of augmenting cloud computing with bandwidth guarantees, we consider a …

Internet media content delivery started to emerge roughly a decade ago, and it has
subsequently had a major impact on network traffic and usage. Although traditional client …

In current multi-channel live P2P video systems, there are several fundamental performance
problems including exceedingly-large channel switching delays, long playback lags, and …

Video sharing has been an increasingly popular application in online social networks
(OSNs). However, its sustainable development is severely hindered by the intrinsic limit of …