传统的流媒体系统建立在客户-服务器模式的基础上, 系统伸缩性差, 服务器常常成为系统的瓶颈.
而最近兴起的P2P (peer-to-peer) 技术在充分利用客户资源, 提高系统伸缩性等方面具有巨大的 …

A robust real-time video communication service over the Internet in a distributed manner is
an important challenge, as it influences not only the current Internet structure but also the …

User Generated Content (UGC) is re-shaping the way people watch video and TV, with
millions of video producers and consumers. In particular, UGC sites are creating new …

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 …

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

Video-over-IP applications have recently attracted a large number of users on the Internet.
Traditional client-server based video streaming solutions incur expensive bandwidth …

Efficient and scalable live-streaming overlay construction has become a hot topic recently. In
order to improve the performance metrics, such as startup delay, source-to-end delay, and …

We present a system for video-on-demand streaming in peer-to-peer environment. We start
by realizing the major differences between two types of streaming: live and on-demand …

Provisioning random access functions in peer-to-peer on-demand video streaming is
challenging, due to not only the asynchronous user interactivity but also the unpredictability …

We propose a peer-to-peer multimedia streaming solution based on the BitTorrent content-
distribution protocol. Our proposal includes two modifications that allow it to deliver …