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Video streaming now amounts to the majority of traffic in the Internet. Media streaming relies on large-scale content distribution networks (CDNs), that incur significant costs to build or use. P2P distribution of video content reduce reliance on CDNs and costs. Unfortunately, P2P distribution is fraught with QoE problems, specially during flash crowds or in scenarios where users have limited bandwidth...