There have been tremendous efforts and many technical innovations in supporting real-time
video streaming in the past two decades, but cost-effective large-scale video broadcast has …

This paper presents DONet, a data-driven overlay network for live media streaming. The
core operations in DONet are very simple: every node periodically exchanges data …

Overlay networks are widely used to deploy functionality at edge nodes without changing
network routers. Each node in an overlay network maintains connections with a number of …

A large and rapidly growing proportion of users connect to the Internet via residential
broadband networks such as Digital Subscriber Lines (DSL) and cable. Residential …

Binocular half-occlusion points are those that are visible in one of the two views provided by
a binocular imaging system. Due to their importance in binocular matching as well as …

Most of the real deployed peer-to-peer streaming systems adopt pull-based streaming
protocol. In this paper, we demonstrate that, besides simplicity and robustness, with proper …

While application end-point architectures have proven to be viable solutions for large-scale
distributed applications such as distributed computing and file-sharing, there is little known …

Due to the technical developments in electronics the amount of digital content is
continuously increasing. In order to make digital content respectively multimedia content …

Watching video online is becoming increasingly popular, and new video streaming
technologies have the potential to transform video watching from a passive, isolating …

Peer-to-peer technologies have proved to be effective for various bandwidth intensive, large
scale applications such as file-transfer. For many years, there has been tremendous interest …