— Most of the real deployed peer-to-peer streaming systems adopt pull-based streaming protocol. In this paper, we demonstrate that, besides simplicity and robustness, with proper...
— We propose a rank-based peer-selection mechanism for peer-to-peer media streaming systems. The mechanism provides incentives for cooperation through service differentiation. Co...
Network coding is an emerging field of research with sound and mature theory supporting it. Recent works shows that it has many benefits like improved fault tolerance, higher ...
—There exists a certain level of ambiguity regarding whether network coding can further improve download performance in P2P content distribution systems, as compared to commonly ...
With BitTorrent-like protocols a client may download a file from a large and changing set of peers, using connections of heterogeneous and timevarying bandwidths. This flexibility ...