As the distribution of the video over the Internet becomes main-stream and its consumption
moves from the computer to the TV screen, user expectation for high quality is constantly …

While every network node only relays messages in a traditional communication system, the
recent network coding (NC) paradigm proposes to implement simple in-network processing …

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

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 …

Since the inception of network coding in information theory, we have witnessed a sharp
increase of research interest in its applications in communications and networking, where …

Centralised solutions for Video-on-Demand (VoD) services, which stream pre-recorded
video content to multiple clients who start watching at the moments of their own choosing …

Networking research often relies on simulation in order to test and evaluate new ideas. An
important requirement of this process is that results must be reproducible so that other …

With random network coding, network nodes between the source and receivers are able to
not only relay and replicate data packets, but also code them using randomly generated …

This paper describes Antfarm, a content distribution system based on managed swarms. A
managed swarm couples peer-to-peer data exchange with a coordinator that directs …

Video viewership over the Internet is rising rapidly, and market predictions suggest that
video will comprise over 90\% of Internet traffic in the next few years. At the same time, there …