Peer-to-peer video streaming has emerged as an important means to transport stored video. The peers are less costly and more scalable than an infrastructure-basedvideo streaming n...
Yanming Shen, Zhengye Liu, Shivendra S. Panwar, Ke...
In this paper we present polishing, a novel technique to maximize the playback utility of a streamed layer-encoded video. Polishing reduces the amount of layer variations in a cac...
Michael Zink, Oliver Heckmann, Jens Schmitt, Andre...
The efficient distribution of stored information has become a major concern in the Internet which has increasingly become a vehicle for the transport of stored video. Because of th...
Jussi Kangasharju, Felix Hartanto, Martin Reisslei...
In this paper, we examine the prefetching strategies in a peerdriven video on-demand system. In our design, each video is encoded into multiple low bit-rate substreams and copies ...
Yanming Shen, Zhengye Liu, Shivendra S. Panwar, Ke...
The heterogeneity of the Internet’s transmission resources and end system capability makes it difficult to agree on acceptable traffic characteristics among the multiple receive...