One of the most striking properties of the Internet is its flexibility to accommodate features it
was not conceived for. Among the most significant examples, in this survey we consider the …

Peer-assisted content delivery networks have recently emerged as an economically viable
alternative to traditional content delivery approaches: the feasibility studies conducted for …

We present our design and deployment experiences with LiveSky, a commercially deployed
hybrid CDN-P2P live streaming system. CDNs and P2P systems are the common …

Video-on-demand in the Internet has become an immensely popular service in recent years.
But due to its high bandwidth requirements and popularity, it is also a costly service to …

A content delivery network (CDN) typically includes a mapping system for directing requests
to CDN servers. One or more peer machines become associated with the CDN, and the …

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital content (such as audio,
video, and text files) as well as real-time data (such as telephony traffic) with other users …

2008, 0037438 A1 2/2008 Twiss 2008/004.0482 A1 2/2008 Twiss least two data sources
(912a, 912b) is delivered to the end user (902). The parameter for the delivery of the digital …

Live video delivery is expected to reach a peak of 50 Tbps this year. This surging popularity
is fundamentally changing the Internet video delivery landscape. CDNs must meet users' …

The hybrid architecture of content distribution network (CDN) and peer to peer (P2P) is
promising in providing online streaming media services. In this paper, we conducted a …

In this paper, we extend our previous study on BitTorrent, the most popular peer-to-peer
(P2P) protocol, to investigate different aspects related to its energy efficiency in IP over WDM …