Abstract— On-demand and live multimedia streaming applications (such as Internet TV) are well known to utilize a significant amount of bandwidth from media streaming servers, es...
: - In this paper we address two problems, for which we present novel, efficient, algorithmic solutions. The first problem is motivated by practical situations and is concerned wit...
ThunderDome is a system for collaboratively measuring upload bandwidths in ad-hoc peer-to-peer systems. It works by scheduling bandwidth probes between pairs of hosts, wherein eac...
John R. Douceur, James W. Mickens, Thomas Moscibro...
We consider the fully distributed Video-on-Demand problem, where n nodes called boxes store a large set of videos and collaborate to serve simultaneously n videos or less between ...
Yacine Boufkhad, Fabien Mathieu, Fabien de Montgol...
— Millions of residential users are widely served by cable or DSL connections with modest upload bandwidth and relatively high download bandwidth. For the increasingly important ...
The throughput of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Video-on-Demand (VoD) systems is typically capped by the users' aggregate upload bandwidth [1]. The drastic increase in the popularity of...