Live streaming media applications are becoming more popular each day. Indeed, some
important TV channels already broadcast their live content on the Internet. In such scenario …

Recently, a number of transport and application layer protocols for haptic and Interactive
applications have been proposed. This paper presents a survey of the above protocols. It …

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as one of the most promising approaches to
improve the scalability of Video-on-Demand (VoD) service over Internet. However, despite a …

This paper proposes the BitCover algorithm, which is a BitTorrent-based solution for video-
on-demand streaming with user interactivity over 5G cellular networks. Its design primarily …

The required real-time and high-rate transfers for multimedia data severely limit the number
of requests that can be serviced concurrently by Video-on-Demand (VOD) servers …

The number of media streams that can be supported concurrently is highly constrained by
the stringent requirements of real-time playback and high transfer rates. To address this …

The required real-time and high-rate transfers for multimedia data severely limit the number
of requests that can be serviced by Video-on-Demand (VOD) servers. Resource sharing …

Providing video streaming users with expected waiting times enhances their perceived
quality-of-service (QoS) and encourages them to wait. In the absence of any waiting-time …

This paper focuses on design issues for multimedia distribution architectures and the impact
workload characteristics have on architecture design. Our contribution is an analysis of …

Peer-to-peer swarming protocols have been proven to be very efficient for content
replication over Internet. This fact has certainly motivated proposals to adapt these protocols …