IPTV, an emerging Internet application, would revolutionize the entertainment and media
industries; however, IPTV also has the potential to overwhelm the Internet backbone and …

Although there are several successful commercial deployments of live P2P streaming
systems, the current designs 1) lack incentives for users to contribute bandwidth resources …

Multimedia social networks have become an emerging research area, in which analysis and
modeling of the behavior of users who share multimedia are of ample importance in …

We consider the design of an open P2P live-video streaming system. When designing a live
video system that is both open and P2P, the system must include mechanisms that …

Recently, the extraordinary growth in the World Wide Web has been swee** through
business and industry. Many companies have developed or integrated their mission-critical …

PPLive is a popular P2P video system used daily by millions of people worldwide. Achieving
this level of scalability depends on users making contributions to the system, but currently …

Recent advances in scalable video coding (SVC) make it possible for users to receive the
same video with different qualities. To adopt SVC in P2P streaming, two key design …

Emerging practical schemes indicate that algebraic mixing of different packets by means of
random linear network coding can increase the throughput and robustness of streaming …

Data-driven P2P streaming systems can potentially provide good playback rate to a large
number of viewers. One important design problem in such P2P systems is to determine the …

In large-scale media-sharing social networks, where millions of users create, share, link and
reuse media content, there are clear challenges in protecting content security and …