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 …

Hash tables-which map" keys" onto" values"-are an essential building block in modern
software systems. We believe a similar functionality would be equally valuable to large …

While attractive in principle, architecture-based self-adaptation raises a number of research
and engineering challenges. First, the ability to handle a wide variety of systems must be …

Several new architectures have been developed for supporting multimedia applications
such as digital video and audio. However, quality-of-service (QoS) routing is an important …

A Resilient Overlay Network (RON) is an architecture that allows distributed Internet
applications to detect and recover from path outages and periods of degraded performance …

Peer-to-peer systems are positioned to take advantage of gains in network bandwidth,
storage capacity, and computational resources to provide long-term durable storage …

This paper presents Scribe, a scalable application-level multicast infrastructure. Scribe
supports large numbers of groups, with a potentially large number of members per group …

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 …