Unreeling Xunlei Kankan: Understanding Hybrid CDN-P2P video-on-demand streaming

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 229-242

  Zhang, Ge ^a   Liu, Wei ^a   Hei, Xiaojun ^a   Cheng, Wenqing ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Content distribution network (CDN); hybrid content distribution network peer to peer (CDN P2P); peer to peer (P2P) network; video on demand (VoD)

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MEDIA STREAMING; NETWORK ARCHITECTURE; VIDEO ON DEMAND; VIDEO STREAMING;

COMPREHENSIVE MEASUREMENT; CONTENT DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS; ENHANCEMENT MECHANISM; HYBRID ARCHITECTURES; PEER TO PEER; PEER TO PEER (P2P) NETWORK; STREAMING MEDIA SERVICES; VIDEO ON DEMANDS (VOD);

PEER TO PEER NETWORKS;

EID: 84921442954     PISSN: 15209210     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2014.2383617     Document Type: Article

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