In streaming media CDN, pushing copies of the new content to caching proxies ahead of time while allowing others to be pulled from the origin server is an effective way to reduce the client startup time and save network resource. In order to cope with the shortcomings of the existing streaming media CDN and accomplish large-scale deployment streaming media on the Internet, in this paper, first,...

During the last decade, we witnessed a rapid growth in deployment of pull-based P2P streaming applications. In these applications, each node selects some other nodes as its neighbors and requests streaming data from them. This scheme allows eliminating data redundancy and recovering from data loss, but it pushes the complexity to the receiver node side. In this paper, we theoretically study the...

With the best effort service presented by today’s Internet network, video streaming applications face an important challenge, especially with the aim to keep the quality perceived by the end user high enough. Several approaches had been explored in order to cope with this aspect. These approaches still suffer from many problems like scalability, complexity, and deployment. Recently, many resear...

Streaming media application has become one of the main services over Internet. As streaming media have special attributes, it is very important to ensure and improve the q uality of service in large-scale streaming media. Based on the dev elopment of media streaming, it compared and analyzed the typical flow service strategy of media streaming system, and summarized the features and shortcoming...

Internet streaming applications should be congestion controlled and quality adaptive. Although the need for adaptive Internet streaming applications has been recognized, no comprehensive architecture that properly incorporates congestion control mechanism has been presented. Large scale deployment of non-congestion controlled streaming applications could endanger stability of the Internet. In t...

Recently, a new server-less architecture is proposed for building low-cost yet scalable video streaming systems. Compare to conventional client-server-based video streaming systems, this server-less architecture does not need any dedicated video server and yet is highly scalable. Video data are distributed among user hosts and these hosts cooperate to stream video data to one another. Thus as n...

Guaranteeing continuous streaming of multimedia data from service providers to the users is a challenging task in wireless ad hoc networks, particularly when node mobility is considered. The topological dynamics introduced by node mobility are further exacerbated by the natural grouping behavior of mobile users, which leads to frequent network partitioning. Network partitioning poses significan...

With advances in the broadband Internet access technology and the coding techniques, video streaming services have become increasingly popular. Traditionally, video streaming services are deployed in the client/server architecture. However, this centralized architecture cannot provide streaming to a large population of users due to the limited upload capacity from the server. Peer-to-Peer (P2P)...