The main purpose of many current peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is off-line file sharing. However, a potentially very promising use of such networks is to share video streams (e.g.,...
Abstract— In recent years, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) and Peerto-Peer (P2P) networks have emerged as two effective paradigms for delivering multimedia contents over the Inte...
In peer-to-peer (P2P) on-demand streaming networks, the alleviation of server load depends on reciprocal stream sharing among peers. In general, on-demand video services enable cl...
— A streaming system based on the Scalable Video Coding (SVC) extension of H.264/AVC is shown. SVC allows for data rate adaptation without re-encoding just by dropping packets of...
Thomas Schierl, Cornelius Hellge, Shpend Mirta, Ka...
Akamai oers the largest Content Delivery Network (CDN) service in the world. Building upon its CDN, it recently started to offer High Denition (HD) video distribution using HTTP-...