Peer-to-Peer Video Streaming describes novel solutions to enhance video
quality, increase robustness to errors, and reduce end-to-end latency in
video streaming systems. The authors are leading Researchers from
Stanford University. This book will be of use to both academics and
professionals as it presents thorough coverage and solutions for current
issues with Video Streaming and Peer-to-Peer architectures. The book
provides an overview of today's state-of-the art video streaming
technology. It presents adaptive video coding and streaming techniques
for performance enhancement of conventional client-server systems and
P2P multicast. There is focus on throughput-limited environments where
congestion often hampers interactivity and fast response times, and
results derived from experiments are carried out over large-scale
simulated peer networks. The detailed appendix incorporates various
additional experiments.