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 …

An emerging Internet application, IPTV, has the potential to flood Internet access and
backbone ISPs with massive amounts of new traffic. Although many architectures are …

In this paper, we present the design, implementation, and evaluation of iPlane, a scalable
service providing accurate predictions of Internet path performance for emerging overlay …

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 …

The success of file swarming mechanisms such as BitTorrent has motivated a new approach
for scalable streaming of live content that we call mesh-based Peer-to-Peer (P2P) streaming …

BitTorrent (BT) in the last years has been one of the most effective mechanisms for P2P
content distribution. Although BT was created for distribution of time insensitive content, in …

The rising popularity of live IPTV has triggered renewed interest in P2P multicast. In
particular, the simple and robust'swarming'style of P2P multicast is currently favored over …

The peer-to-peer (P2P) based video streaming has emerged as a promising solution for
Internet video distribution. Leveraging the resource available at end users, this approach …

Most of the real deployed peer-to-peer streaming systems adopt pull-based streaming
protocol. In this paper, we demonstrate that, besides simplicity and robustness, with proper …