One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …

There have been tremendous efforts and many technical innovations in supporting real-time
video streaming in the past two decades, but cost-effective large-scale video broadcast has …

This paper presents DONet, a data-driven overlay network for live media streaming. The
core operations in DONet are very simple: every node periodically exchanges data …

In tree-based multicast systems, a relatively small number of interior nodes carry the load of
forwarding multicast messages. This works well when the interior nodes are highly …

We propose a new scheme for content distribution of large files that is based on network
coding. With network coding, each node of the distribution network is able to generate and …

A peer-to-peer technique called ZIGZAG for single-source media streaming is designed.
ZIGZAG allows the media server to distribute content to many clients by organizing them into …

In recent years, overlay networks have become an effective alternative to IP multicast for
efficient point to multipoint communication across the Internet. Typically, nodes self-organize …

We consider the problem of distributing" live" streaming media content to a potentially large
and highly dynamic population of hosts. Peer-to-peer content distribution is attractive in this …

In light of the slow deployment of IP Multicast technology on the global Internet and the
explosive popularity of peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing applications, there has been a flurry …

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital content (such as audio,
video, and text files) as well as real-time data (such as telephony traffic) with other users …