Internet was primarily designed for one to one applications like electronic mail, reliable file
transfer etc. However, the technological growth in both hardware and software industry have …

The P2P networks play a crucial role in communication and data transfer. During recent
years the importance of P2P network is increasing due to its scalability and an easy cost …

Nowadays, peer‐to‐peer network plays a significant role in data transfer and
communication. The past few years have witnessed considerable growth in this area …

In recent years, research efforts tried to exploit peer-to-peer (P2P) systems in order to
provide Live Streaming (LS) and Video-on-Demand (VoD) services. Most of these research …

Increasingly, commercial content providers (CPs) offer streaming solutions using peer-to-
peer (P2P) architectures, which promises significant scalability by leveraging clients' …

Live video streaming over internet is becoming popular more and more. Current commercial
live video streaming systems are based either on a typical client-server (cloud) or on a peer …

In P2P video streaming, each peer requests its wanted streaming data from others and
responses others' requests by its data scheduling algorithm. Recent years, some data …

In recent years, the users' perceived quality of experience (QoE) in streaming services has
gained a lot of attention. Particularly, a number of research efforts have focused on providing …

This work has been submitted to NECTAR, the Northampton Electronic Collection of Theses
and Research. Article Title Page 1 This work has been submitted to NECTAR, the Northampton …

Currently, there are many peer-to-peer (P2P) application layer multicast (ALM) solutions
which offer a serious alternative to IP multicast and content delivery networks live video …