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After P2P file-sharing and VoIP telephony applications, VoD and live-streaming P2P applications have finally gained a large Internet audience as well. In this work, we define a framework for the comparison of these applications, based on the measurement and analysis of the traffic they generate. In order for the framework to be descriptive for all P2P applications, we first define the observable of...
Skype is one of the most successful VoIP application in the current Internet spectrum. One of the most peculiar characteristics of Skype is that it relies on a P2P infrastructure for the exchange of signaling information amongst active peers. During August 2007, an unexpected outage hit the Skype overlay, yielding to a service blackout that lasted for more than two days: this paper aims at throwing...
Early P2P-TV systems have already attracted millions of users, and many new commercial solutions are entering this market. Little information is however available about how these systems work. In this paper we present large scale sets of experiments to compare three of the most successful P2P-TV systems, namely PPLive, SopCast and TVAnts. Our goal is to assess what level of "network awareness"...
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