Peer-to-peer systems for video delivery

Peer-to-peer systems for video delivery

Peer - to - Peer Video Streaming

The Internet as a video distribution medium has seen a tremendous growth in recent years. Currently, the transmission of major live events and TV channels over the Internet can easily reach hundreds or millions of users trying to receive the same content using very distinct receiver terminals, placing both scalability and heterogeneity challenges to content and network providers. In private and...

A survey on peer-to-peer video streaming systems

Video-over-IP applications have recently attracted a large number of users on the Internet. Traditional clientserver based video streaming solutions incur expensive bandwidth provision cost on the server. Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networking is a new paradigm to build distributed network applications. Recently, several P2P streaming systems have been deployed to provide live and on-demand video stream...

Peer to Peer Systems

Peer-to-peer systems are bringing Windows-based computers onto the Internet as full participants. Peer-to-peer systems utilize the connectivity and capacity to share resources offered by the Internet without being bound by the constraints imposed by the Domain Name System. Peer to peer systems (P2P) are so named because each computer has the same software as the other – every computer is a peer...

Peer-to-Peer Systems

Peer-to-peer technologies (or P2P for short) have broken through in recent years as an attractive alternative to the traditional client-server-based architectures and systems. A lot of the attention paid to peer-to-peer systems has been caused by the widespread use of P2P file sharing networks, where (often illegal) media content is being distributed. Recently deployed peer-to-peer systems howe...