Content distribution systems have traditionally adopted one of two architectures:
infrastructure-based content delivery networks (CDNs), in which clients download content …

Peer-to-peer (P2P) locality has recently raised a lot of interest in the community. Indeed,
whereas P2P content distribution enables financial savings for the content providers, it …

Live video streaming applications have gained great popularity among users but exert great
pressure on video servers and the Internet. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks provide an …

A thorough understanding of the network impact of emerging large-scale distributed systems-
-where traffic flows and what it costs--must encompass users' behavior, the traffic they …

BitTorrent (BT) has carried out a significant and continuously increasing portion of Internet
traffic. While several designs have been recently proposed and implemented to improve the …

The optimization of overlay traffic resulting from applications such as BitTorrent is a
challenge addressed by several recent research initiatives. However, the assessment of …

A substantial amount of work has recently gone into localizing BitTorrent traffic within an ISP
in order to avoid excessive and often times unnecessary transit costs. In this work we aim to …

In search of scalable solutions, CDNs are exploring P2P support. However, the benefits of
peer assistance can be limited by various obstacle factors such as ISP friendliness-requiring …

P2P live streaming requires low latency and low media discontinuity to provide users good
quality of experience. When peers are connected to a large number of partners, the …

Collaborative ISP caching has been advocated to reduce the otherwise significant amount of
costly inter-ISP traffic generated by peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. The fundamental design …