Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Techniques for Media Delivery Workshop

Thursday 23 February 2012, De Montfort University, Campus Centre

Traditional client-server video streaming systems have critical issues of high cost and limited scalability. P2P networking has been shown to be cost effective and easy to deploy. The main idea of P2P systems is to encourage users to act as both clients and servers. A user in a P2P system not only downloads data, but also uploads it to serve other users. The upload bandwidth, computing power, and storage space of the end users are exploited to reduce the burden on the servers.

This free workshop will present recent advances in P2P networking, focusing on video communication applications. In addition to talks, a number of demos showing implementations of real P2P systems will be presented. The workshop is aimed at researchers and practitioners from academia and industry who are interested in the latest developments in the field.

Talk details and descriptions

Schedule:

10.30   Registration & Coffee

11.00   Introduction & Welcome
Prof Bob John, Deputy Dean Faculty of Technology, De Montfort University
Eddie Townsend, ICT KTN
Dr David Griffin, University College London (Chair)

11.15   From P2P to Social and Back Again
Prof Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge

12.15   P2P live streaming for massively Multiplayer Online Games
Prof Raouf Hamzaoui, De Montfort University

12.55   Lunch and Networking

13.40   Pull-based P2P content adaptation and optimised SVC layer selection
Prof Toufik Ahmed, CNRS LaBRI, France

14.20   Evaluating P2P as a platform for delivering next-generation TV services
Dr Nick Race, Lancaster University

15.00   Distribution of Multi-view entertainment using content aware delivery systems (DIOMEDES)
Dr Erhan Ekmekcioglu, University of Surrey

15.40   Presentation Summary, Prof Raouf Hamzaoui

15.50   Demonstrations, Networking and Refreshments

17.00   Close

Programme is subject to change

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