We present a stream tapping protocol that involves clients in the video distribution process. As in conventional stream tapping, our protocol lets new clients tap the most recent ...
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 ...
With the explosive growth of video applications over the Internet, many approaches have been proposed to stream video effectively over packet switched, best-effort networks. In ou...
—Most research on P2P multimedia streaming assumes that users access video content sequentially and passively. Unlike P2P live streaming in which the peers start playback from th...
Changqiao Xu, Gabriel-Miro Muntean, Enda Fallon, A...
We study peer-to-peer multicast streaming, where a source distributes real-time video to a large population of hosts by making use of their forwarding capacity rather than relying...