Abstract--To effectively address the explosive growth of multimedia applications over the Internet, a large-scale media streaming system has to fully take into account the issues o...
—In recent literature, network coding has emerged as a promising information theoretic approach to improve the performance of both peer-to-peer and wireless networks. It has been...
In todays IP networks most of the network control and management tasks are performed at the end points. As a result, many important network functions cannot be optimized due to la...
—Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) are distributed systems of wirelessly networked devices that allow retrieving video and audio streams, still images, and scalar senso...
BitTorrent is today's most influential peer-to-peer system. Currently BitTorrent has two very different operating models: (1) public trackers, and (2) private trackers (also k...