We present the first analytic study of stream tapping protocols, a family of protocols that provide the most efficient way to distribute videos on demand at low to medium request ...
Incentive mechanisms are essential components of peer-topeer systems for file sharing such as BitTorrent, since they enforce peers to share their resources and to participate. Re...
Thomas Silverston, Olivier Fourmaux, Jon Crowcroft
In this paper, we propose to use a simple packet servicing algorithm suitable for servicing bursty real-time multimedia traffic streams in packet-switched networks. These real-tim...
New challenging deployment scenarios are accommodating portable devices with limited and heterogeneous capabilities that roam among wireless access localities during service provi...
The migration of the Internet from classic computer communication to a platform for multimedia applications with real-time communication requires end-to-end improvements of the ne...